Christ, can we impeach somebody now. Please?
Here's a fantastic TPM piece on the whole sordid affair.
Matthew Continetti, from the Weekly Standard of all places, was on the radio this morning saying that if Gonzales goes then impeachment becomes a real possibility, due to all of the hearings that would accompany the choosing of a replacement.
Your TPM link has an extra quotation mark at the end.
Oh, Christ. Why not just title the post "Got a complaint about politics? A shoebox full of rejection slips from reputable New York publications? Sublimate your high school-vintage fear and shame here!"
These events have recalled for me the sense I had watching the Watergate Hearings, Spring/Summer '73, that the whole thing had a Kabuki quality. Aside from over-the-top characters—I had thought Foghorn Leghorn was a fugal phantasy with no basis in reality before that, not straightforward satire—I felt every day like shouting: "You said nothing about that, and you get exited about this?"
Still mystified after a lifetime.
It's worth noting that when the AG claimed the other day that there was a meeting with Congressional leaders before he rushed to the hospital, in which Congressional leaders had agreed it was all legal (the AG was attempting to paint Congress as flip-flopping on it, I think), NPR got in touch with one of the Senators at that meeting and asked her to comment. Her response was to get extremely angry and tell them in no uncertain terms, on the record, that the meeting did happen, that it was classified and thus he shouldn't have brought it up, that it was not about the legality of the surveillance program and that, because it was classified, she couldn't say what it was about other than to say "operational details" of the surveillance.
He's pointing at a meeting that was about something else, which was classified, and trying to use it as cover. I do so love the way this Administration just bats classification status around like a shiny, shiny toy.
NPR got in touch with one of the Senators at that meeting and asked her to comment.
I believe every Democrat in the so-called Gang of Eight has contradicted Gonzales' testimony; I don't know if any intrepid reporter has bothered asking some of the Republicans. This shit is complicated! There's a soldier who wrote an article on doing bad things in Iraq, and Lindsey Lohan is attempting to stuff all of L.A. up her nose! But first, local sports.
I guess the demand wasn't as popular as all that.
If it had been posted yesterday, as I suggested, this thread would have been in the high three digits by now.