It's Friday! And the Buzzflash GOP Hypocrite of the Week is....

Alberto Gonzales

Imagine our surprise when The New York Times, in a recent editorial, used the word that BuzzFlash has been calling Alberto Gonzales for years: the Consigliere of the Bush Administration.

As we've noted before, Gonzales embodies the most fundamental criteria for appointment to office in the Bush Administration: loyalty. Forget competence or adherence to the rule of law, Gonzales is the one who got Bush out of jury duty when he was governor of Texas.

Why was that important? Because it allowed Bush to avoid answering a juror questionnaire that would have forced him to reveal his drunk driving conviction and perhaps other illicit activity.

Yeah, Bush and Gonzales go back a long way, as do Bush and Karl Rove and Bush and Harriet Miers (she of the short-lived Supreme Court nomination). They all have years and years of doing dirty work for George –- and that's what makes them such necessary street enforcers for Fredo.

Gonzales' office, which is after all allegedly our Department of Justice, mobbed up the U.S. Attorneys to become partisan hit men for the GOP. And the "revelation" was a pivotal symbolic moment, because it involved so many of the key Bush dirty work specialists: Gonzales, Miers, Rove, and more.

Full story here: http://www.gophypocrites.com/2007/03/hyp07011.html

...it was only a matter of time before he hit number one hypocrite. Too bad it won't be able to bask in the glory for too long as he is heading straight down as number one CHUMP of the week real soon.

I remember when this happened and why. We knew then that Georgie Boy had a nasty past with some run-ins with The Law. Shit, it was even going on while he was in office ("Funeralgate"). I'm thinking someone in the media here in Texas used that term, consigliere, for Abu Gonzo. Maybe it was Molly Ivins.

Funny that Mark Shields, liberal analyst and writer, most popularly seen on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on Fridays, thinks of Harriet Miers as a sweet goofy lady enamored with Bush. I think I agree with this author in referring to her as one of the dirty work specialists.

Some of the commentary from your site needs to make it to Capitol Hill for consideration about the true character of the specialists and that their loyalty is not to the Constitution.