Who's next?

I couldn't be happier that Alberto Gonzales has quit as Attorney General. It was way overdue.

Actually, he never should've been confirmed in the first place because the man's only qualification, apparently, was that he was unfailingly loyal to Bush. That's hardly a good quality for an attorney general.

Gonzales backed illegal warrantless wiretapping, apparently trying to get then-Attorney General Ashcroft to back it, too—applying pressure while Ashcroft was in his sick bed recovering from surgery. Gonzales was also apparently the main backer of the US engaging in torture, re-defining torture so that the US could do it while saying it wasn't—because Gonzales had re-defined the word to exclude the means of torture used by this administration. Gonzales apparently was deeply involved in establishing the whole “extraordinary rendition” torture programme.

Gonzales' downfall began when he fired US Attorney's for purely political reasons—they weren't being sufficiently aggressive in pursuing Democrats—and then he allegedly lied to Congress about his involvement in the scandal. This was only the most visible of Gonzales many faults.

The real tragedy of this is that if Gonzales had been any kind of real, qualified Attorney General, if he had even a smidgen of integrity about him, he could have played a role in derailing much of the anti-Hispanic prejudice surrounding the immigration debate. But Gonzales was only worried about loyalty to Bush.

So, once again, good riddance to bad rubbish. Since people in the Bush Administration have been told to leave by Labor Day or stay to the end, one wonder's who will resign next. Any chance we could convince both Bush and Cheney to leave now? Please?