I know it's popular to blame the media for failing to cover a story like this. But here's the thing: with political stories, the media takes it cues from the political parties. If this were a Democratic president squashing an investigation, you can bet Congressional Republicans would be hitting the cable talk shows 24/7, drumming up interest, and forcing the story into the news cycle.

I am NOT talking about the rightwing noise machine, either. It's true, Republicans have effective proxies in the form of talk radio, fox news, etc. With a story like this, however, there is no substitute for actual Congress-people - I'm talking about real live Senators and House members - getting on the news and shaking the tree. And Republicans consistently do a better job with this than Dems.

Barney Frank should be on Lou Dobbs talking about this story tonight. Rahm Emmauel should be on MSNBC. Shumer, Pelosi, and Feingold should be hitting the airwaves. When that happens, the media will cover it.

Committees (Feingold and Conyers) sent scathing letters to Gonzo demanding answers right NOW.

Links available at Raw Story, I believe.

GG: But when it came to investigating whether the DOJ lawyers, including Alberto Gonzales, acted improperly, perhaps even illegally, the President blocked the investigation, at Gonzales' behest

Now that should get him impeached. It's much worse than lying about a blow job. First, though, I'd like a nice thorough investigation and hearings in Congress filling in all the details-- as you say, I'm sure it's the tip of the iceberg.

It bears repeating that none of this information coming out now would have ever seen the light of day if the Republicans had maintained control of Congress.

Security clearances were not given to Glenn Fine’s office until after the election in an attempt to appease the Democrats, so it’s quite clear that his investigation into the firing of these attorneys would never have gone forward at all if the Democrats didn’t get subpoena power. As Sidney Blumenthal put it yesterday:

If the Democrats hadn't won the midterm elections last year there is no reason to believe that the plan to use the U.S. attorneys for political prosecutions -- as they have been used systematically under Bush -- wouldn't have gone forward completely unimpeded. Without the new Congress issuing subpoenas, there would be no exposure, no hearings, no press conferences -- no questions at all.

The replacement of the eight fired U.S. attorneys through a loophole in the Patriot Act that enables the administration to evade consultation with and confirmation by Congress is a convenient element in the well-laid scheme. But it was not ad hoc, erratic or aberrant. Rather, it was the logical outcome of a long effort to distort the constitutional framework for partisan consolidation of power into a de facto one-party state.

Every day that goes by it becomes more apparent just how important the last election was – the survival of our very democratic system was (and is) at stake.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/03/15/rove_attorneys/print.html

The President decided that

protecting the secrecy and security of TSP requires that a strict limit be placed on the number of persons granted access to information about the Program for non-operational reasons. TSP is subject to extensive oversight within the Executive Branch.

In other words, the program is Double Super Secret and you can't have the decoder ring. Besides, its all OK because everyone who attended our super secret meeting agreed!

Can I go home now, I here Karl calling me to dinner!

http://judiciary.house.gov/Media/PDFS/110-DOJOPRshutdown070315.pdf

As I watch the news I'm starting to see Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman.

Ok, now I really despise Gonazales. (I just wrote about this this morning on my blog).

http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/pdf/ltr_031507_Gonzales.pdf

If Gonzales goes, who will we end up with next?

Why did the senate allow his appointment to go through in the first place? It never looked like a good idea.

We should all take a stand. Until the Congress draws up articles of impeachment against the Bush-Cheney criminal cabal, don't bother asking us for our support, and speak out for impeachment at every opportunity.

Clinton was impeached for lying about a consensual sexual affair....

"The Bush administration's offenses against US law, the US Constitution, civil liberties, human rights, and the Geneva Conventions, its lies to Congress and the American people, its vote-rigging scandals, its sweetheart no-bid contracts to favored firms, its political firing of Republican US Attorneys, its practice of kidnapping and torturing people in foreign hellholes, and its persecution of whistle blowers are altogether so vast that it is a major undertaking just to list them all.." (excerpted from Paul Craig Roberts article today at Antiwar.com)

Our own allies have begun saying that America no longer exists, and the Democratic party has the power to restore it, but chooses not to. Shameful.

The 110th Congress may just surpass the 109th as the "Do Nothing Congress".

I watched Alberto G. on the Today's Show. He looked pale, reeling backward, ill-fiend like, part-scared (?) full-blood, (yes) savage, and (proverbial) plunged into the heart's with a peeper's audio voice that registered, big-time, FEAR. They can't flee.

But, pretending to be undaunted, Mr. AG spoke more creeping lies that need to be continually revealed. They can't hide under this 'weird' 'era'de' of Mr. bush.

The fake-defiance of scardy-cats is not going to work. Taunt, for they 'um cracking. The neocon's are just whistling in the wind.. Thanks to everyone on board the Yellow-School bus that's NOT got the ding-dong cranial head stuck out the window shouting, 'war-whoops.'

Keep anticipating hell-fire and Thor's, by any essense of common-wisdom's NAME....and watch the striking-thunder. It eventually come on schedule. It's never late. Never doubt, and keep the good 'ole time faith.

Lightening! See them run for the swamp thickets. Hotly pursued, 'um bushe's will not provide a safe protection. Glenn, You use a gentle carving knife....'See how they run, a bunch of blind mice...'

And stay unswerving, because many off us open-hearts-and-Minds, thank you-no need to say, "Your Welcome."

You and other's just keep walking point. It's a gradual slow-seeming at times, Meditation....on death. We got you're a**e covered as backup. You are the real foot-soldier's and real-troops. thanks.

Take um to the barn and clean-up these scroundels in our times...Wattawamat. You got my vote. Neo-cons are foe to our mother's, father's, children (we people) and all humanity. They are foe of Good. Thanks.

I'm way behind. If it's the last man behind in the platoon, I'll watch the foxhole so they can't hide and pray to Lady-Theft. She's full of wrath too. Neo-cons are in big-big Trouble, imo.