This is the short version; the long version is on my blog under the same title:

It looks like Alberto Gonzales won’t be Attorney General much longer. In addition, there will be considerable pressure put on George W. Bush to fire his long-time friend and top political advisor Karl Rove. And it’s all over some lies that these guys told over the perfectly legal, if politically unsavory, firing of seven federal attorneys.

The problem is, these two people should never have been in power in the first place. What’s worse, there are plenty of good reasons for getting rid of them, but those reasons didn’t seem to get headlines. It’s worse because we desperately need to stop pretending that the politically unsavory is more important than the downright un-American.

Both Rove and Gonzales have committed horrible acts that render them unfit for their jobs. But since opposition leaders didn’t bother to expose their actions as truly despicable, disgusting, and opposed to all that is good in America, Rove and Gonzales got away with it.

Until now … at least.

Karl Rove’s litany of sleaze is well documented. He planted a bug in his own campaign office, then claimed the Democrats had done it. He mastered the art of “push-polling” to discredit both Ann Richards and John McCain. He began giving Robert Novak (Valerie Plame’s “outer”) phony stories 15 years ago. He’s probably connected with various groups who have committed serious election fraud over the past several years.
As bad as Karl Rove is, Alberto Gonzales may be even worse.

Gonzales got then-Governor George W. Bush out of jury duty in a drunk driving case with a ridiculous excuse – and failed to mention Bush’s own drunk driving conviction. He drafted the memos defending Americans’ torture of prisoners in Afghanstan and Iraq and creating the military tribunals that the Supreme Court struck down. He claims there is no Constitutional right to habeas corpus. And now he lies through his teeth about his involvement in firing eight U.S. prosecutors.

The problem is, instead of going after these two crooked sleaze-mongers for the things that render them unfit to serve, Democrats are attacking them on strictly political lines. This is incredibly stupid, not to mention incompetent. Democrats finally have the power to investigate everything the White House has done over the past six years. But instead of concentrating on the real evils of George W. Bush and his staff, Democrats are playing games.

George W. Bush and his administration are the most un-American people ever to inhabit the White House. The time has come to talk about the real reasons they are all unfit for duty. Republicans have proven over the years that they are unwilling to deal with the real threat to our freedom. If Democrats don’t step up to the plate, we are in for some very dark days, and years, to come. Unfortunately, so far the Democrats show no signs of doing their job.

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