Please Go!

With the Scooter Libby verdict a few weeks in the past, I find my almost insatiable desire to see Bush Administration officials embarassed due to their incompetence, malfeasance, felony convictions, etc. fully ramped up again.

With Libby out of the way, let's turn our focus to the A.G. a.g. (attorney general, alberto gonzales.) There is a disturbing pattern (actually there are many) in the Bush administration of putting unqualified people into important jobs where they inevitably fail. They get their jobs because they are "Bushies", loyal to George W. and the family in general. Yuk. Anyway, we've seen the results of these appointments before, maybe most tragically with Michael Brown (Brownie) leading the administration's brilliant response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The man was appointed to head FEMA with absolutely no emergency management experience. We all know how that turned out and the tragic consequences of having such an ill-prepared person in such an important job.

Back to Alberto Gonzales, Esq. Perhaps, he more than anyone other than Brown, is the type of Bush appointee that leads to problems. As much as anyone, Alberto Gonzales has built a career around being loyal to bush. I'm sure he is smart and whatever else, but loyalty has been his ticket to all sorts of important jobs. As Governor of Texas, he worked for bush and then bush put him on the texas supreme court. He served as bush's White House counsel before becoming Attorney General.

The Attorney General's highest duty is to the Constitution of the United States. Who among us would believe that Gonzales would put that duty above his loyalty to george w. bush?

I hope the pressure stays on him, and that by the end of this week or next, Alberto Gonzales will have found his way out of the D.O.J.

After John Ashcroft, I never thought bush could come up with a worse Attorney General. He may have just accomplished it.

In related news, today there is a story out that the White House has agreed to let karl rove and harriet miers be interviewed by committee members investigating the purge of U.S. Attorneys. Now, these "interviews" are always conducted without the interviewees being under oath.

Make no mistake. You can read this "agreement" only one way. The White House is saying to rove and miers "Feel free to go lie to Congress about your roles in this. You won't be subject to perjury charges and you can provide for cover to the White House." Very reminiscent of the scene in "Farenheit 911" in which Bush says he won't testify to the 9/11 Commission but that he'd be happy to "chat with them". How nice.