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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 10:28 PM
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Playing ‘Survivor’ in Washington
IN recent weeks, Beltway wise guys have amused themselves with a distinctively local version of the TV show “Survivor,” pitting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales against Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank chief. Who will be first banished from the swamp?

Will it be Mr. Wolfowitz, the embattled former deputy defense secretary, over allegations of favored treatment to his girlfriend, a former World Bank official?

Or Mr. Gonzales, the embattled attorney general who has been bludgeoned over his role in the dismissal of eight United States attorneys?

Regardless, a pervasive belief has taken hold that both are, in the tender parlance of politics, road kill. “By the way, Alberto Gonzales is still attorney general,” was how NBC’s online political tip sheet, First Read, began a Wednesday report on Mr. Gonzales. And you know you’re on the outs when you’re reduced to saying, as Mr. Wolfowitz did, “I urge the committee to reject the allegation that I lack credibility.”

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“In the middle of all this, my wife sent Al’s wife an e-mail,” said Michael Brown, the chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during Hurricane Katrina and no stranger to Category 5 storms of public ridicule. The e-mail message reassured her, simply, that “there’s life after Washington.” Mr. Brown, who calls Mr. Gonzales a “true gentleman” and a “friend,” nonetheless subscribes to the belief that Mr. Gonzales is going down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/weekinreview/06leib.html?ex=1336104000&en=dd7ef4bf94c1963b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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