Gonzales to Congress: Get Over it, I'm Staying

[EV_Ares]

For a man with much to be modest about, Alberto R. Gonzales sure seems to be feeling his oats these days. On Wednesday, in prepared remarks he intends to deliver to the House Judiciary Committee when he testifies again on Capitol Hill today, the Attorney General told the lawmakers to move their pretty little minds past the U.S. Attorney scandal so that everyone at the Justice Department could get back to work. "The sooner that all the facts are known," wrote the man who famously couldn't or wouldn't remember vital details last month before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his role in the controversy, "the sooner we can devote our exclusive attention" to protecting "the American people from the dangers of terrorism, violent crime, illegal drugs and sexual predators." (Memo to file: Under Gonzales' watch, violent crime in many large cities is up, as is drug use in the middle of the country, and it has nothing to do with the Attorney General becoming distracted).

Then came this from today's New York Times: "Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appears increasingly confident that he will survive the crisis over the dismissal of federal prosecutors, as White House aides who view him as a liability see little point in trying to persuade President Bush to push him out, administration officials and Republican allies said. Though Mr. Gonzales is considered in Congress and in legal circles as an isolated and diminished figure, he has told aides he believes he has weathered the storm." Perhaps this newfound (and to me inexplicable) confidence explains why the Attorney General's prepared remarks to the House Committee are strikingly similar to his prepared remarks before the Senate Committee last month-- and we all know how that turned out for Gonzales. In fact, the whole lead-up to Gonzales' date with the House reminds me of what George Packer wrote in this week's New Yorker magazine: "The Bush Administration has come close to perfecting the art of unaccountability."

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[aquart]

1. He's an anvil. Let the Republicans wear him.

And let's make sure we get lots of footage of Republicans with him, standing up for him...let's do that.

He thinks he's Bill Clinton and this will all blow over if he just refuses to resign. He ain't Bill Clinton and we have the right to KEEP INVESTIGATING.