Buh-bye!
But I'll add, don't be too quick to gloat Dems!
Paul at Powerline summed it up nicely:
I've never been a fan of Gonzales, but I can't help feeling sorry for him. The "scandal" that led to his demise -- the firing of the U.S. attorneys -- appears to involve no wrongdoing on his part. Moreover, the underlying decisions and process appear to have been the product of the White House, not Gonzales. His defense of the decisions was hardly stellar, but if I'm correct, he was handicapped by the fact that they were not really his decisions.Gonzales's only real offense seems to have been mediocrity. But mediocrity in an Attorney General is nothing new (think Janet Reno), and any blame for this occurrence properly attaches to the White House.
Often the biggest favor a president can do for a friend is to not appoint him or her to very high office.
But that won't stop Bush from appointing someone equally as mediocre to the job, someone like Michael Chertoff.
Am I the only one out here who wonders whether Bush has a political death wish? Between allowing the floating of Chertoff's name and his little "Vietnam" speech debacle last week, I'm thinking the guy might as well just bite down on that cyanide pill already (metaphorically speaking). Watching him self-destruct is more painful than being forced to watch endless hours of Wow Wow Wubzy (and believe me, I would know).
Posted by insomnomaniac at August 27, 2007 7:40 PM | TrackBack