Yes, he seems to have a straight face during this exchange.

GONZALES: “With respect to voter fraud…as someone who grew up in a poor neighborhood, the one day when we equaled everyone else was on Election Day. And so I really appreciate how important the right to vote is.”

But it it gets even worse than that. Hold onto your lunch and click the PLAY button…

Video courtesy of Paul Kiel at TPMMucker, who has a few more thoughts on what a frickin’ joke this particular Gonzo Moment was… As if all regular readers of The BRAD BLOG don’t know it already by heart.

7 Responses

  1. I didn’t get to watch much of the hearings online, had to catch the rerun on CSPAN 2 this afternoon.

    My kid gave me SUCH grief for yelling at the tv when Gonzales said that. He was on the phone, and I heard him explain to his friend that his mother was just mad at the government again.

    I apologized. I couldn’t help it.

  2. Kestrel:

    Your kid should feel lucky that you still have a tv and didn’t take a baseball bat to it (as I was tempted to do to mine today).

    Watching the insanity in this administration is enough to make us all crazy!!!!!

  3. John Dean has written an article about the hearings:

    Notwithstanding the lack of support Gonzales has in the Congress, and the damage he is causing the Bush Administration, he is not going to resign, and Bush is not going to fire him. Rather, Bush is going to, in effect, create a new, and far lower, standard for acceptable conduct by attorneys general. Bush is openly embracing the “Peter Principle” – the management theory that says that, as people within an organization advance to their highest level of competence, they will then be further promoted to, and remain at, a level at which they are incompetent. This has clearly occurred with Alberto Gonzales.

    (John Dean). The people are going to place responsibilty for this on republicans, and hold them accountable in the ’08 election.

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