Things Don't Look Good for the AG

George had full confidence in Donald, but then didn't. Of course the nation would have been much better off if Rumsfeld had been jettisoned years earlier -- So far Robert Gates has shown himself to be one of the few competent Bush appointees.

Now we have an AG who has shown himself to be at minimum incompetent if not corrupt. Ashcroft was an ideologue, something that Alberto Gonzalez doesn't appear to be. Gonzalez is simply a political hack. Not sure which is worse. Anyway, today's hearings with Gonzalez's former deputy don't seem to be going well.

Here are a just a few tidbits!

"Right now it is generally acknowledged that the Department of Justice is in a state of disrepair, perhaps even dysfunctional, because of what has happened, with morale low, with U.S. attorneys across the country do not know when another shoe may drop," said Specter, R-Pa.

Sampson also confirmed a large White House role in planning the firings. That undercut the department's long-cherished image of acting independently in pursuing crime.

He said that White House political staffers working for presidential aide Karl Rove were involved closely in the plans to replace prosecutors - as evidenced by thousands of department e-mails released to Congress.