Legalities

so it wasnt all 500 lawyers who got fired, only 8. media content is wanting for more of this content but the public may be less interested, sort of like an intentional insurance fire.

That adds an interesting twist to the plot. Hubris never ceases to amaze me. As I understand the meaning of hubris to the ancient Greeks, it meant more than mere pride. It was a special kind of pride where a person would go against what the gods told him to do. The gods would tell him to do a certain thing and then he would instead go off and do it his own way -- with tragic results. (I'm not at all equating Harriet Miers and the rest of McNulty's advice givers with Greek gods, but it is an interesting partial analogy, and the tragedy could get worse before it's all over.)

Well, hubris and Greek tragedy aside, unless someone shows obstruction of justice in the firings, I don't see how this whole mess will ever be more than ugly -- ugly but not fatal to Gonzales or Rove. But still I wonder what Goodling's taking the fifth thing is about. Thursday's testimony by Sampson should be interesting.

Apparently Gonzales will stay, assuming there's nothing else significant out there that didn't come out in Sampson's testimony today.

This quote (from MSNBC) today from Leahy seems to sum it up:
"The Senate committee chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., stopped short of calling for Gonzales' ouster. But Leahy reminded a reporter Thursday, "I voted against him," when the Senate confirmed the Gonzales as the nation's top law enforcer in 2005.

"If the president feels Mr. Gonzales is upholding the highest level of professionalism that he wants in his administration and that the president wants to be remembered for, then he'll stay on," Leahy said."

Many conservatives don't like Gonzales but my guess is they'd have liked his replacement even less. The confirmation of a new AG would have been ugly, and I'm guessing the senate wouldn't have confirmed anyone who wasn't more liberal than Gonzales. So I think conservatives should be glad he's staying.

Well, Gonzales might stay as AG, but any glimmer of hope he had for a Supreme Court nomination is obviously gone. I wonder how this mess will effect the SCOTUS chances of Priscilla Owen, who also is from Texas and part of Bush's Texas circle. My guess is there would be too much guilt by association between her and Gonzales, and the senate democrats on the judiciary committee would hit her with everything they wish they instead could be hitting Gonzales and Rove with. It would be real ugly

So I'm guessing the short list for the next vacancy has just lost her name, and it's now only Brown and Sykes.

The astounding and unprecedented secrecy the Bush cabal has clocked its self with bespeaks lawless or unscrupulous governance, certainly very contrary to the open and transparent government required to sustain democracy. The fact that Bush and his cronies blatantly lied to send this once great nation into a needless and unjustifiable war is reason enough to impeach them, let alone the numerous investigations into their other abuses of power and obstruction of justice. Get rid of these thugs, the sooner the better for us all. There is already enough to see blatant hypocrisy and massive corruption, almost a constant stench emanating from the White House, and it is about time the citizenry see some oversight and accountability from these Bush thugs. Let the congressional investigations continue and expose the full extent of corruption coming from the worst presidency this nation has ever seen.

i gotta love all the "worst presidency ..." statements ... kinda like the global warming debate ... if anyone has a differing opinion, Lord help 'em ... that's the prob with liberalism ... they always think within the box ... don't use the 3000+ dead soldiers jargon as a means for pulling out of iraq, 'cause if it were strictly deaths that concern you, then let's check into any metro city's homicide rate last year ... rhetoric astounds me ... thank heaven's the democrats of mt time weren't like the inempt demo's today ... i think i liked the days of the "cold war" better ... atleast we knew our enemies ... and they weren't in congress

The demographic winter is here.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Solange