Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Duncan Hunter: Too busy to comment on Gonzales, but about those Democrats...

Republican presidential hopeful and longtime California Congressman Duncan Hunter seemed to say he was too busy on MSNBC's Hardball Monday afternoon to pass an informed judgment on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. But that didn't stop the former Armed Services Committee chairman from criticizing Democrats who are investigating the Attorney General.

"I haven't been reading the transcripts, watching the hearings, I don't want to disserve him by just repeating the headlines and statements by senators," Hunter said when guest host Mike Barnicle asked if Gonzales should step down. "So unless I was in those hearings and had a chance to really examine the record, I don't want to trash Attorney General Gonzales."

"I noticed when you played Newt Gingrich's statements, New Gingrich didn't say that he had done a terrible job, he said the appearance was that he had done a terrible job and that's bad for the country," Hunter remarked. "This summer session of 'Bash Gonzales' hearings that the Democrats have been holding has been having an effect."

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