86. Gonzales needs to go.

Not much to say today - the weather is too nice to think about words. In the news, always better than whatever fiction the New York Times Sunday magazine is pushing, the Attorney General of the United States, Alberto Gonzales, went before a Senate panel yesterday, only to have senators call his tesitmony "a stretch," "removed from the actual events," and "actions which can only be corrected by [his] resignation." And that was his friends on the Republican side, including one from the Republic of Texas. Of course the president, in his usual hightened state of mental alertness, gave Gonzales one of those "attaboys" like the one he gave to "Brownie" after the Katrina disaster. Bush's second Attorney General, the grandson of perhaps three illegal immigrants, is by far better than his first, John Ashcroft, who is the only man in the history of the Republic to ever lose a United States Senate race to a dead man. One of the reasons he is better isn't all the mistakes he has made, however, it is his obvious lightweight abilities to fully execute the office. Where Ashcroft was heavy handed and deeply ideological, using the beliefs of his church, the Assemblies of God, as a touchstone, Gonzales, who is quietly a Catholic (but is not totally against abortion), is simply just a lightweight, not up to the task of being the Republic's 80th Attorney General. Gonzales was swore into office on February 3, 2005. It is now time for Gonzales to go back to Texas.