Make him testify -- uhhh, take the 5th -- as well.

Have any of the people that have resigned in the last few months been replaced, and if so, by whom, and if so, who decided on the replacements and why haven't we heard anything about it?

Gonzales, from what we can tell from his testimony, hasn't been involved in the running of the Department since his appointment. So if they haven't been replaced, who's running the Justice Department these days?

I mean, clearly nothing improper happened and this is just another liberal non-issue...

The 'Pubicans say so, the Preeesident says so, and dernit, in 'Merrica we just don't cotton to rabble rousers.

Now, will us lazy Americans do anything to support the sustained and directed attack on 'Merrica?

That is the only war worth fighting in this entire world.

And yet there are still so many who claim there's no fire. At this rate, Gonzales will be the only one left at the department, and Bush will still be giving him a full vote of confidence.

Remember the old days when people working for the Government resigned before they would do anything unethical or illegal?

Heck, Richard Nixon had both his Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General resign before he found someone (Robert Bork!) who would carry out his order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. If the Democrats hadn't finally gained the majority along with subpoena and investigatory power they would have been happy to carry on indefinately.

Wow, Republicans sure have gone down hill in the morality department since Nixon's time. Strangely enough everyone thinks Republicans are alot more religious now; just ask them, they'll tell you! Maybe that just makes it easier to justify using the DOJ as a partisan weapon and repeatedly lying about it.

We may not be able to get rid of Gonzo, Chimpie and Darth right now but it's good to see them neutered like this. Since they won't carry out the people's business, it's very important that they be unable to further their nefarious schemes. I'm starting to think that Gonzalez may be so weakened that it may be better that he stay (as long as congress keeps ratcheting up the pressure) rather than have whatever interim wingnut Bush would appoint as a replacement pulling things back together before the 08 elections.

Haul him before a congressional committee, so he can tell us everything he just doesn't recall right now, and when he's through stonewalling, let him take up his new seven-figure position at one of those Karl Rovian think tanks, or AIPAC, or Haliburton. This is how it all will end. Each of those fascist swine will become quail-eating millionaires, wholly immune from any consequence for their criminal behavior. I weep for America.

two news nuggets from this week show that no-one in congress has managed to push the DOJ off its course - (1) to derail voter rights and (2)to help big corporations and ignore the needs of the public at large.

As to voters: in NC, a local Republ named Merritt, was just aided by a newly-published bogus DOJ report for NC to successfully put a wrench on the state legislators' vote this week on NC's new 'same-day-voting' legislation.

He apparently was coy about his warnings as to what his source was for why the vote was a bad diea. But on the day of the vote a report was published citing three [gasp] horribles:

(1) that voter rolls exceeded the populace in some towns [yes virginia, inactive voters' names are only purged after two federal elections, leaving lists often higher than resident numbers, esp in college-type towns with a transient populace], (2) voters who were dead [yes, virginia, many absentee voters died before the general elections] and (3) underage voters [yes virginia, many 17 year olds vote legally in NC primaries so long as they turn 18 by the date of the general].

And, as for post-Katrina victims of Insurance Companies? Even a federal judge was apparently appalled at DOJ's refusal to join a private suit against insurers who are screwing hurrican victims. The progressive site

http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2007/06/gulf-watch-why-wont-doj-take-action-on.asp

quotes AP:

"U.S. District Judge Peter Beer filed a one-sentence motion this week: 'The Court, on its own motion, respectfully requests the United States Department of Justice enter this case by July 9, 2007, or show cause on July 11, 2007, at 9:30 a.m., why they are not intervening in this civil action.'"

So, while we wonder who the "good Americans" are who have been recently appointed over the last few years to push projects at DOJ, we can rest assured that those at the top of DOJ continue to ensure DOJ has time to help local Republicans put the wrench in voting rights legislation in states like North Carolina, and to provide sufficient resources to help prosecute nasty individuals who defraud Insurance companies. But as a result the poor DOJ is just too strapped to file an amicus brief to help the victims of Katrina get their insurance money.

...of this bullshit are we, the American people, going to put up with? Is there no bar set low enough to wake the public up to this low-rent, mob operation that has hijacked our government?

Good riddance to another slimy rethug.

The only issue is, WHAT will it take for "Seedy" Gonzales to resign? It is more than obvious to anyone paying attention that the DOJ has become a wing of the GOP to push their agenda.

The only reason he has not been forced out of his appointment is due to a lack of a solid majority in the Senate. The GOP will not vote to remove this guy. Why? Because of not wanting to look weak to their constituency, rather than considering the protection of this important agency for the good of our nation.

My guess is that AG will only go out on his shield. Certainly not due to his integrity, or knowledge of the law. He is a loyalist to Bush. He is the shield to protect many of the administration's abuses of power and violations of the constitution (remember AG saying that this is just a "piece of paper"). He knows where the bodies are buried, and accordingly, would be a real problem to this WH if he "flipped". Funny how the use of mobspeak is so approapriate for this administration.