More and more often, I appreciate the sensible insights of Andy McCarthy, this time concerning strident calls for our admittedly mediocre AG Alberto Gonzales to step down or be fired.
Now, no matter what you think of Gonzales's performance, it would be a travesty to allow him to be forced out because the opposition has turned the USAtty fiasco into a referendum on abuse of presidential power.... Makes it all the more infuriating to find yourself in the position of defending a guy who wouldn't have the job but for his closeness to the president and whose story, to explain testimony now acknowledged to be inaccurate, is that he didn't know what was going on between his own chief-of-staff and the White House counsel.Posted by Alan at March 14, 2007 06:23 PM...
Gonzales rates being defended strictly because it would be an outrage if he lost his job over this manufactured scandal. But the president shouldn't be shocked that there isn't exactly a tidal wave rushing to the attorney general's defense.