Gonzales is toast

It would appear that Alberto Gonzales is about to be finished as Attorney General of the United States. His chief aide today in testimony before Congress made it quite clear that Gonzales lied when he claimed to be more or less "out of the loop" when it came to the firing of eight Federal Prosecutors. In fact he seems to have been in constant communication with Sampson about these matters from even before he became Attorney General. As most everyone assumed from the beginning that Gonzales was lying I guess this comes as no surprise. What remains to be determined now is just who else was involved in this travesty. All bets are on Karl Rove and probably even the President himself. Will Karl Rove ever be called on to testify under oath? Probably not until Bush's dying day as Rove knows too much to be allowed to testify. But the wheels continue to come off the Bush/Cheney administration day by day. It will doubtless get worse before it gets better (if, indeed, it ever gets better).
Gonzales is supposed to go before Congress on April 17th. Want to take bets on whether he does?

What I find the most interesting thing about Sampson's testimony is that he seems to believe they did nothing wrong. He points out that as these Attorneys are appointed by the President they should be expected to carry out the President's priorities. This is a curious position to take in so far as these Prosecutors, once appointed, are supposed to uphold the law and act in the best interest of justice. Are they supposed to abandon law and justice if in some cases it does not suit the President's agenda? Only a Republican who has swallowed the kool-aid could possibly believe such a thing. Sampson seems to be a case in point. He seems to think they did nothing wrong. The statistics on how many Democrats were targeted as opposed to Republicans, and the guilty sounding emails seem to indicate otherwise. It seems clear to me that this was Rove's attempt to politicize the judiciary just as he has politicized the White House away from the national interest in favor of the exclusive interest of the Republican party. This attempt by Rove to establish a permanent Republican administration will hopefully soon go down in flames.

Dorothy Parker once said that eternity was "two people and a ham." She obviously had never encountered a Mennen Speed Stick. Thinking about eternity leads me to think about growing old. But I will leave this for another day.