Lawyers...

The Republicans, and more specifically the Bush Administration, have done it again: the Federal government is now dealing with another scandal. Apparently, even Republicans have seen the need to distance themselves from the administration, as our much-loved GOP senator John Sununu became the first Republican to call for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. It has come to light that the recently fired US Federal prosecutors may have been fired for political reasons, and that assertion is becoming more and more likely every day. The White House is, of course, running the spin machine at full blast, but even that, it seems, will not suffice to cover it up this time. The e-mails released are making the situation nastier and nastier. White House Counsel Harriet Miers suggested firing all the US attorneys and replacing them to bring "new blood" in. What she meant when she said "new blood" was actually "red blood." This move was later refuted by Gonzales's chief of staff Kyle Sampson, who said that the idea would backfire because "The vast majority of U.S. Attorneys... are loyal Bushies." Of course, we all know that the primary prerequisite for a prosecutor is political alleigance. One of the administration's correspondents even suggested using the Patriot Act to bypass the confirmation for the newly instated "Bushies." The Senators calling for Alberto Gonzales's resignation are completely justified. Not only has he created another scandal, he has done so using one of the most commonly used tools in the administration's toolbox, lying to the public. With this, the administration as a whole has lost just about all of its credibility, but Gonzales has lost everything that made him appealing in the first place. It's time for some new blood higher up on the chain.