On Tony Baloney: If Helen Thomas actually agrees to goe to lunch with him and tells her that he's picking up the check he'll, more than likely, be lying.

On Fredo: If he's learned anything from his tenure it's probably that when he hears Tony Snow talking, and Fredo comments on it, they both are probably lying.

Is it a mistake if you do something intentionally or just if you get caught doing it?

he can't "acknowledge" his many mistakes.

Oh well, he was ONLY the Attorney General.

AGAG must be the least self-aware person in the entire world.

How could a rational human being have lunch with Tony Snowjob without vomiting all over him?

I like the reference to "temporary assignment". I project forward to a mental image of Bush at the end of his temporary assignment as president asking Nancy Pelosi out to lunch. I hope her reply would be "Mr. President, you have been out to lunch for years."

I believe that everyone knows that in America, disposable is better. Take for example diapers. Who really wants to go through dirty diapers anyway? They are much better when they are designed to be disposable from the start. The same goes for Attorney Generals, Secretary of Defenses, Secretary of State's, Chief of Staffs, not even to mention Scooter Libby, whatever he was.

Even Carl Rove, America's great Moby Dick proved to be disposable. But wait a minute, there is another Dick in the administration who is still there. When will his time come?

"I'm on the pavement /Thinking about the government / The man in the trench coat

Badge out, laid off / Says he's got a bad cough

Wants to get it paid off / Look out kid / It's somethin' you did

God knows when / But you're doin' it again / You better duck down the alley way

Lookin' for a new friend / The man in the coon-skin cap

In the big pen / Wants eleven dollar bills / You only got ten

Goodbye Tony Snow, and godspeed for a full recovery. You've done the right thing by leaving this deplorable administration-- you should take care of your health, take stock of your life (take corrective, restorative action), and surround yourself with loved ones.

Goodbye Alberto Gonzales. Don't let the Constitution hit you on the ass on your way out.

where Gonzoles identified, acknowledged and corrected his mistakes before he moved on.

But I won't complain. We'll just have to make the best of the "moving on" part.

Let's hope Congress makes the best of it too, when they're confronted with a loyal, incompetent "Bushie" replacement.

I'd like to know how the kind of forgiveness Gonzo seeks factored into all those prisoners put to death while he was AG in Texas. Gonzo is a hollow man, plain and simple. A mere construct shell that can be filled with any program to operate in any prescribed manner..Error checking optional...

I don't buy for a minute that he is leaving for financial reasons. Now, he *may* be leaving for unstated ethical reasons, and that is quite fine with me. But I intensely dislike the tendency of public figures to downplay just how serious advanced illnesses actually are -- the brutal reality of living with the disease. Snow's cancer is quite obviously having a harsh impact.

It's unfair to others with advanced cancer and plays to the worst American myths regarding disease: "If you are strong enough, you will overcome." Work hard, avoid any acknowledgement of death...pretend that nothing is wrong, that you can still get up smiling everyday, and that you feel no pain or weakness. Our country needs to grow up.

Tony thinks it's all a big game, the lies and misdirection that gave cover to his boss who gleefully set in motion events that have killed 800,000 people. "Let's do lunch!" he says.

Meanwhile Alberto the Serious stuck a dagger in the heart of the cherished up-by-your-bootstraps success myth by showing the real way to power and success in Republican America is sycophancy and toadyism mixed in with a good helping of hypocrisy. "I'm a good person because I tried to correct all the mistakes I didn't remember and took no responsibility for and denied actually occurred."

I find it hard to believe the Republican Party can possibly sink any lower.

I cant recall, I dont remember, again and again up to 56 times in one session. A really honest person fit to be AG in hell.

MTV's "Jackass"

Gonzales did a lot of damage in the last few years, but it can be repaired, and now he'll almost certainly never again hold a position of significant responsibility in the federal government. Let's not forget, though, that before the U.S. attorneys scandal and his pathetic testimony, he was generally viewed as not completely lacking in substance. If Bush had nominated him for a federal judgeship before the 2006 election, he would have been easily confirmed, and would have spent the rest of his life inflicting his idiocy on all of us. We are all very lucky he's leaving now under these circumstances.