Heckuva job, Alberto [View All]

A Register-Guard Editorial
Published: Saturday, May 19, 2007

~snip~ A vote of no confidence in Gonzales is like a vote of no confidence in the Chicago Cubs' chances of winning the World Series. Anyone who still expresses an eyedropper full of confidence in Gonzales is, like President Bush, merely gambling that the political damage from supporting the imploding attorney general will be easier to survive than the fallout from firing him.

The folks who (used to) work for Gonzales already have voted - with their feet. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, the No. 2 executive in the Justice Department, resigned Monday. Gonzales aide Monica Goodling refused to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and then resigned. Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson, initially made the fall guy in the attorney firing fiasco, resigned, as did William Battle, the Justice Department official who contacted most of the prosecutors to tell them they were being replaced.

Will the last person to leave the department please turn out the lights? ~snip~

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