One of those weird unverifiable because we have no connections ourselves and are thus relying on journalists who may or may not be connected to the truth stories has been that Alberto Gonzalez has been practicing and practicing and practicing his testimony for his big day before the Senate Judicial Committee.\u00c2\u00a0 And that he kept failing and failing and failing in these practice rounds.<\/p>\n
After today’s testimony, it is clear this indeed happened.\u00c2\u00a0 It was not misinformation bounced from the Bush Administration to lower expectations so that when Gonzalez comes across as slick as velvet, he’ll be hailed as having defeated the controversy making the Democrats look stupid.\u00c2\u00a0 Practicing your testimony sometimes clears a liar up, makes him smoother and slicker and better able to evade what is now a hostile jury with non-answers. \u00c2\u00a0 And sometimes it just confirms that there is nothing you can do, your non-answers will show you as a fraud and there is no way to polish them.\u00c2\u00a0 The latter appears to be what happened.
\nYears from now we somebody will write the back-stage story of Alberto Gonzalez’s practice rounds, within a volume on the Bush Administration’s troubled final acts.\u00c2\u00a0 I imagine a horrified group of Bush accolydes staring at each other as Gonzalez stutters toward explanations.\u00c2\u00a0 Tapping fingers across from Gonzalez, flummoxed for a better approach “Okay, Alberto.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s try… um… ‘I do not recall’?\u00c2\u00a0 See how that one comes across.”<\/p>\n
I look forward to reading that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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