MORE REPUBLICANS CALL FOR GONZALES TO STEP DOWN-- LOTS MORE

After Congressman Doody (R-FL) jumped on the Dump Abu Gonzo bandwagon last week, I started to lose track of all the Republicans with their fingers to the wind calling on Bush's hideous Attorney General to resign or be fired. So while Bush reiterated his complete confidence in Abu G-- going so far as to say that his confidence in the man no one else has any confidence in at all "had grown after the attorney general's performance at the Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday"-- although Bush later admitted he hadn't even watched "the performance"-- all the vulnerable GOP senators who have to face voters next year urged Gonzales to take a powder.

Senator Leahy liked Bush's endorsement of Gonzo to his "Heckuva job, Brownie" statement in the wake of the botched FEMA disaster after Katrina. Ron Brownstein, in today's L.A. Times was even less circumspect-- about Bush.

GEORGE W. BUSH'S presidency is devolving into an extended holding action. On too many fronts, his top priority now appears to be delaying the inevitable.

Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former Defense secretary, once described the Iraqi resistance as a few "dead-enders" who refused to acknowledge that the world around them had changed. Increasingly that phrase applies as a self-portrait for the administration that Rumsfeld served. Forget "the decider." Bush has become the dead-ender.

Today's batch of Republican cowards included Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Susan Collins (Lieberman Party-ME), and Norm Coleman (R-MN), while Kentucky's Little Miss Popularity (with an approval rating of 38%-- just 30% higher than Cheney's) is urging fellow Republicans to bury their heads in the sand-- something, as a longtime denizen of dark closets-- he's very comfortable with. As with all things-- and perhaps the reason we're in such a mess now, McConnell "deferred to Bush, who said this week that Gonzales’ April 19 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee had reaffirmed his support for Gonzales. 'The attorney general works for the president,' said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. That's why they call him Bush's "bitch," that good old rubber stampin' attitude in the face of... well, everything.


UPDATE: EVEN CRAZY OLD McCAIN SAYS ABU GONZO SHOULD RESIGN

With his head having been firmly up Bush's aqss for the last 2 years, McCain has been loathe to say anything that would make Chimpy the Prez twitch. Last night on CNN's Larry King Show, however, McCain finally came around and agreed that Gonzales has to go. “Out of loyalty to the president, he should obviously step down,” McCain said. “He’s not serving the president well. I reached that conclusion a long time ago but no one asked me."