If anybody has any idea Alberto Gonzales is going to be asked to resign, or will do so on his own, or will be prosecuted this year, in my opinion you are wrong. Gonzales is here for the long haul-well, that long haul being defined as roughly between now and October (Surprise, surprise) of next year.
I just have an idea somebody, somewhere, is sitting on potentially explosive information regarding this obvious political hack, something that can be tied directly to Bush and possibly some GOP Senators as well.
In the meantime, this guy has got to be like a chancre sore or a dull toothache to the Bush Administration, and to the Republican members of Congress. It just gets worse and worse, and the more he opens his mouth, the more obvious it becomes that he is lying, hiding something, obfuscating, and just generally showing how incompetent he really is.
Here, let me give you an example:
Gonzales is asked whether it was at the direction of President Bush, when he went to the bedside of then hospitalized Attorney General John Ashcroft to get the ill AG to sign off on Bush's warrantless wiretapping efforts. This program met with a great deal of resistance amongst senior members of the Administration.
Gonzales refused to answer the question directly. He refused to say yes or no, one way or another. Now, what the hell does that tell you?
That, perhaps, he didn't want to be caught in yet another lie-like the one where he said the program didn't meet with any "serious objections" from any members of the Administration.
Well, it has been said that Bush is going to keep Gonzales for two reasons. One, it would be extremely difficult, maybe impossible, for him to appoint a successor to Gonzales that would be to his liking. I'm assuming here this means to his political liking, not incompetent.
Also, Bush is tenaciously loyal-stubborn, in fact.
Well, the Democrats don't really want him gone either, obviously. By the time the election rolls around, it won't really matter whether they can tie Gonzales to Fred Thompson or Giuliani, or whoever the GOP nominee turns out to be.
He'll be tied in general to the GOP-that's all that matters.
