Those who believe that Bush is holding onto Gonzales out of loyalty to a friend are naive; he would throw his own mother under the bus, even Rove, if he thought it would save his political skin.

But he's in a real bind now. Once Gonzo is gone he has to find a replacement that would pass the Senate confirmation process, and even the Republicans there would be in no mood to approve another Bush ultra loyalist. The new guy might even consider it his function to run the justice system, not abet and cover up all the Bush misdeeds.

Nixon had a similar although more competent loyalist as AG, John Mitchell. But the beginning of his downfall was when Mitchell resigned to run his 1974 reelection campaign; the Democrat controlled Senate wasn't about to let another ultra loyalist slip by, and Nixon's prior misdeeds began to be uncovered one after the other.

That's one bit of history you can bet Bush is aware of.

I mean, the man has done everything W wanted. He's been plenty busy getting the DOJ full of "our kind of people." The career employees are leaving in droves, all replaced by OKOP.

Now that Alberto is being questioned about it, he pretends not to remember, just that mistakes were made and he'll fix them (i.e., try not to be so blatant next time).

Alberto is exactly the kind of person that has W's full confidence.

Sorry, but W isn't in that set.

who can't remember important stuff? Oh, yeah, George Bush.

Let's not forget when tallying Abu's sidesteps to include all instances where his claim of having no knowledge of any particular instance was only implied. I think he was in some way aware of how frequently he was avoiding direct questions so he began omitting the phrase "I don't know" and began many many "answers" with a little twist on the old song, "What I do recall" and then giving his prepared statement. Add those and I'll bet that 50 would at least double.

Well done.

There should be headlines that say, "Republican Senators call for Bush's Resignation"

Multiple Republican members of Congress have called for Gonzales to resign for what has taken place. Bush clearly states that he 100% approves of what took place as well as the Attorney General's response and testimony. Therefore, by extension, those same members of Congress should be asking Bush to resign.

I guess that means we can conclude that AG Gonzalez has executed his job exactly as W. wanted. Seems to reason then that W. wanted investigations into republican scandals stopped and ones into democrats ginned up. Sounds impeachable to me.