Comments on: A Tough Job Market for Discredited Bush Lawyers

By: AlbertFall

AlbertFall — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:43:38 +0000

It hard out there for a pimp

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:17:15 +0000

The city is more liberal now than the university. (All those student radicals have become senior citizens.)

By: rich2506

rich2506 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:27:33 +0000

Can we hope that Mukasey runs into the same trouble finding a job for his current dishonesty concerning FISA and calls made prior to 9-11? At th very least, he might have to settle for going back to work for his old companies the way Harriet Miers is.

Kind of amusing to see that Miers was praised for her blogging skills while Presidential spokesperson Dana Perino was panned for hers. Apparently, Miers had the knack of “speaking” in a human-”sounding” voice whereas Perino was reportedly fulla facts & figures.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:07:19 +0000

Damn. I’ve had Stanford on the brain since the chatter about Condi for Veep. Ugh. And this crap and this crap doesn’t help.

Maybe it’s cognitive dissonance, too; who’d ever think Yoo would fit in at Berkeley?

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:13:19 +0000

Nobody in the Legal Community will hire Gonzo?

Golly wolly…

Nobody in the Military Community will hire Haynes?

Golly wolly…

The Pope won’t eat with the man who received God’s Command to make Aggressive War?

Golly wolly…

It looks like We’ve got US a Confab of Pariahs emerging from the mist…Gee, I wonder what the cause?

Golly wolly…

By: lennonist

lennonist — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:16:35 +0000

Thanks for also noticing this. Also, I wonder if he’s being denied jobs or if organizations are simply waiting to see what happens to him. In short, I don’t think it’s a denial as much as a delay. His loyalty will be rewarded eventually with a job and until then he’s not missing any meals as there are plenty of orgs who will wait to hire him but aren’t afraid to shell out speaking fees.

I sent Matt Diaz an email today asking if he wants me to take up a collection. Hopefully the award and the press coverage will persuade someone to step forward now with a job as I know he has a family to worry about. I’d just like to see him make as much in a year for full time work as Fredo Gonzales makes for one speech. That would be plenty to live on.

By: tejanarusa

tejanarusa — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:33:09 +0000

Glad to see you make that contrast. I, too, heard the NPR interview, and it made me unutterably sad. He lost his license to practice - and people like Yoo and Gonzales are still strutting around unconvicted and still holding their licenses.
I was thrilled byond measure to see the article saying Gonzales is not getting job offers. But of course, He gets those outrageous speaking fees so he isn’t hurting.
Perhaps we could take donations and bring Matt Diaz to speak at Net Roots Nation? Or any other occasion where a courageous truth-teller would be a welcome speaker? Of course, we DFH’s can’t pony up 30 grand, but we could get some decent amount, I bet. ideas, anyone?

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:25:24 +0000

Small world, bmaz; I also know someone from that H’vard law school class who was a financial contributor and signer to the ads that some of Gonzo’s former law school members placed in prominent media. Gonzo is likely to find himself shunned at future law school reunions.

But I love this from EW:

The article also mentions that Gonzales has a defense fund.
I wonder if Barbara Comstock is in charge of that, too?

I sincerely hope that Barbara Comstock, who views campaigns as ‘prosecutions’ that require ‘oppo research,’ is in charge of much of Gonzo’s welfare. May she do as shoddy and hapless a job for Gonzo as she did for Scooter Libby!

Comstock, IMHO, is a Cautionary Tale in what happens when people mistake politics (which should be about articulating a vision of the future and then discussing how to get there) for a ‘brutal, machismo competition’ in which all rules are cast to the winds. Her ‘oppo research’ and ‘prosecution’ of Al Gore in 2000 were symptomatic of the Rovian view of politics, which is inherently self-defeating; what’s the point of gaining territory if all you end up with is scorched earth? Comstock ought to end up in an orange jumpsuit for enabling the BushCheney conspiracy that’s done so much damage these past seven years.

Comstock appears to be incapable of creating any basis for trust; I can’t think of a finer ‘asset’ to assist Gonzo. Birds of a feather, those two.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:09:20 +0000

And I’ll put money on the politicians in question being hand-picked by the Parsky Commission.

Ahem.

I am so bloody sick of the many layers of this onion.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:39:27 +0000

I will also add that, if I were looking for a job, I don’t think I would hire the lame spawn of Bork as my PR flak. Gonzales really is one dumb bunny. Jeebus. Heh heh, take a look at the CV of ~~Doofus~~ Dork Jr., his greatest accomplishments in life are that he was a gopher boy for Carla Hills (wife of Mr. Chiquita, Hot Rod Hiils) and that he directed “the litigation pr strategy for the former manufacturers of lead paint”. Very impressive.