Gonzales's Signature Moment (makes us sick)

Eugene Robinson speaks for us.

It is hard to get the image out of one's mind.

It makes you sick to your stomach.

Then, insomnia sets in, as you wonder what else they are capable of, because, on a deeper level, you know.

You've always known. Since the 60's you have known, because you experienced it, to some degree and you watched others experience it.

The flashbacks start: The loss of innocence, Kent State, Chicago, 1968, dark days of political assassinations, My Lai, apocalypse then, dead schoolmates, U.S. Naval Hospital Corps-China Beach, young people on trips -courtsey of the CIA and on and on..........

This White House gang is the same one we had back then. With the Rethugs, the faces don't change all that much. They just switch chairs, occassionally. Some die off, others, even more horrible, re-place them and the beat goes on......

Everything in your life experience points to your worst nightmare coming true.

Older and wiser? Older for sure....wiser, let's hope.

The GOP is imploding. Experience tells me that the Democrats will save them, if necessary.

God help the ordinay, appalled citizen!

Eugene Robinson - Gonzales's Signature Moment - washingtonpost.com:

It just gets worse and worse. We already knew that Alberto Gonzales -- who, unbelievably, remains our attorney general -- was willing to construe the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions however George W. Bush and Dick Cheney wanted. We knew he was willing to politicize the Justice Department, if that was what the White House wanted. Now we learn that Gonzales also was willing to accost a seriously ill man in his hospital room to get his signature on a dodgy justification for unprecedented domestic surveillance.

The man Gonzales harried on his sickbed was his predecessor as attorney general, John Ashcroft. The episode-- recounted this week in congressional testimony by Ashcroft's former deputy, James Comey -- sounds like something from Hollywood, not Washington. It's hard not to think of that scene in 'The Godfather' when Don Corleone is left alone in his hospital bed, vulnerable to his enemies, and Michael has to save him. (Read On, why should you have any peace? ^)