Maybe Gonzales will be Next

I am glad Libby got punished for his part in the administration's scandals, as noted below. Maybe Gonzales will be next. He has been Bush's lap dog ever since he was the governor of Texas. Bush keeps promoting him to positions of greater and greater power as he himself has been elevated. And what does Bush value above all else? Loyalty. Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty. Not intelligence or competence or ability, but loyalty, pure and simple. That is what got us into the Katrina Mess, the fact that he placed loyal people in charge rather than people who could actually do the job.

And Gonzales has proven his loyalty time and time again. As White House counsel he twisted the Constitution within an inch of its life in order to justify warrantless wiretapping on American citizens. In my opinion he violated the Constitution. His first act as Attorney General, according to the New York Times, was to bring over to the Justice Department two White House aides and elevate a third that had recently moved to the Justice Department. The Attorney General is supposed to work for the American People, not the White House. Though he claims to see the distinction Gonzales proved he was just paying lip service to it with the politically motivated dismissal of federal prosecutors who weren't "loyal" enough. The loyalty thing again. They are obsessed with it. They fired these prosecutors because they were investigating the corruption of Republicans. The firing plan was initiated by Harriet Miers, at that time White House Counsel (at least she has some sense and dignity and resigned from this mess). The entire idea came from the White House. For that reason alone it should never have touched the Justice Department. True, Clinton fired prosecutors, but back then we had Senate oversight. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the President now has sole power. The Senate will soon vote to possibly bring back that oversight, as they should. This country was founded on checks and balances, not a monarchy.

But back to Gonzales. Gonzales took on the plan from the White House as his own and, doing the President's bidding, fired the prosecutors, who were fine and able prosecutors, because Bush didn't like them. Gonzales ought to Resign.