"To my knowledge, I did not make decisions about who should or should not be asked to resign," he plans to say.

Is he actually going to say this? Is he suggesting that someone else might know better than him? That -someone else- might be making his decisions -without his knowledge-?

The idea that didn't know about the dismissal of more than a tenth of his immediate subordinates is ludicrous. And if, in some strange alternate universe, it were true, it would be damning evidence of total incompetence.

Either way, that statement should be enough to send him on his way. We can't shut up about this scandal until he's gone, and the Senate can't agree to appoint anyone that Bush even knows.

I know a guy who used to be a Navy Officer in a Central American country. He told me that he got tired and embarrassed with pretending he was stupid.

He was supposed to, ordered to, let drug smugglers get through, when he and his men knew damn well when and where they came in, when they easily could have intercepted them.

Instead of acting dopey and saying, "No, Senor/Si Senor," he quit. Mister Gonzales should have this sort of pride. Just quit, and shut up, Al. No need to be a hero, but no need to act stupid either.

He isn't saying someone else made the decisions. He's saying that he may have made the decisions without the knowledge that he had made them. It's very subtle, but apparently in this administration, nobody remembers what they did because regardless of whether you ask them one second or one year later, they have done so many important things in between that when you ask them it will be as if they've heard of it for the first time.

They are the smartest people in the country, and have more facts than any of us non-top government people, but they all agree with Ronald Reagan in front of the Tower Commission: "I don't remember and you can't prove it." I'm sure when they finally get Rove under oath, he isn't going to remember how it was that his email got erased either.

It's okay if you didn't remember that Gonzales didn't remember that he didn't remember whether his staff remembered that he didn't remember whether he was in a meeting about something he doesn't remember.

After all, he'd be confused too, if he could only remember.

I misspoke. I made an inaccurate statement. These phrases are not valid or appropriate under the circumstances. To misspeak usually means to say a word that is close to, but not, the word one intended to say. It can also mean to make an inaccurate statement, which leads to the word inaccurate. It's possible to make an inaccurate statement about something objective. "His car is green," is inaccurate if the car is really blue. But when you say something subjective, something about which you have the most personal knowledge because that thing came out of your own mind and mouth you can not be inaccurate, you can only lie.

Once again, the bad guys set the vocabulary and not nearly enough people are calling them on it.

And...where the hell is Monica Goodling? Surely she's not going to get away with "pleading the Fifth" and simply disappearing??

I personally feel impatient to see the Warner Brothers production of this as a short film in a drive in theater one hot summer night . Elmer is going for multiple roles here .

Maybe somebody else has better knowledge. As it stands, the attorney general does not seem to know exactly what he has or has not done.

Republican Memory Loss Syndrome (RMLS) once again in action, the time-tested defense: Destroy evidence, deny responsibility and knowledge, derail investigations. I'd also call it "implausible deniability."

So much for "the party of personal responsibility." So many bucks are being passed these days, they'll need "Buck Passes Here" signs throughout DC. No doubt the GOP will come to vociferously demand honesty and accountability in the Executive Branch after 2008, once a Democrat is back in the White House. But maybe there won't be enough of them left in Congress to make much noise.

..."Alberto, whould you fire or force to resign a subordinate accused of what you are being hauled in here for?"...

..." What is your breaking point for removal of a subordinate for incompetence, memory loss, and lying?"...

Pass the baloney...

In reference to Ondelette's remark-the people who are supposedly running this country (into the ground) are not smart, nor are they the "smartest people" available to run this country.

They are mediocre minds (at best) beset with personal agendas obsessed with power, money and influence.

Not one of them, I do believe, has graduated from the top ivy league colleges with a 4.0 or better average grade, except Rice. That is what I'd call smart...and the lack of smarts is definitely on display when the AG says he can't remember what he did in the past, even though there are emails proving that he did it.

The lack of brain power in Washington is destroying this country and until we smarten up about it, it will worsen.

There is hope that this day will be a crown in the White House pack of lies. There is also hope that the Senators will ask the questions which the little masterliar from the DOJ has not anticipated. Cheneys stupid grin notwithstanding, lets get the whole bunch of incompetents into a Libby like position, if there are still some independently thinking judges to be had.

Does anyone in Washington remember anything? When I imagine what Washington is like, I envision hundreds of thousands of Bush appointees trying to find their cars when they leave work at 3:00 p.m.

Flay him alive in the hearings, absolutely, but stop short of the line past which His Stubbornness might actually fire Fredo.

We've already lost Brownie and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz - we need to keep the headline-making incompetents like Gonzales, Rice and Cheney front and center as long as possible.

Hit people over the head day after day after day after day with the inescapable evidence of what the Usurper considers "governance."

It's called "influencing the jury pool" - the jury in this case being the American people who will stand in judgment during impeachment hearings.