I listened to Tony Snow be a horse's ass for the last time at today's White House press briefing.  After the following exchange took place, I threw my copy of Marilyn Quayle's "Embrace the Serpent" through my television screen:

Tom Hamburger of the LA Times writes of YET ANOTHER White House attempt to suppress the voting rights of of a group perceived to vote for Democrats.

For more than 15 years, clean-cut, square-jawed Tom Heffelfinger was the embodiment of a tough Republican prosecutor. Named U.S. attorney for Minnesota in 1991, he won a series of high-profile white-collar crime and gun and explosives cases. By the time Heffelfinger resigned last year, his office had collected a string of awards and commendations from the Justice Department.

So it came as a surprise — and something of a mystery — when he turned up on a list of U.S. attorneys who had been targeted for firing.

Part of the reason, government documents and other evidence suggest, is that he tried to protect voting rights for Native Americans.

As I sit here and watch yet another CNN report on high gas prices, I thought back to those giddy days BTWPETO (Before the WORST President Ever Took Office) and was trying to remember what exactly he  said about high gas prices during his unsuccessful run for office.  I'm sure this has been written about many times on this site but sometimes I need a refresher so a quick search of Google brought back this quote:

In December 1999, in the first Republican primary debate, Mr. Bush said President Clinton “must jawbone OPEC members to lower prices.”

Riiiight.  

Just some excerpts from Newspaper editorials from the last few days... BTW, if someone can find one that supports Gonzales (written since Comey testified) please let me know.

Chuck Hagel is the latest Republican to call for Alberto Gonzales's resignation, saying he has "lost the moral authority" to lead the Justice Department.  Apparently, news that Gonzales made a late-night hospital visit to John Ashcroft was the tipping point.

From ABC:  

After a frustrating search for a new "war czar" to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ABC News has learned that President Bush has chosen the Pentagon's director of operations, Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, for the role.

It's fairly common knowledge that the army is having a tough time these days meeting it's recruiting goals.  When your underlying recruiting slogan is, "Come be a low-paid RPG target" you don't find people rushing to sign-up.

Carla Marinucci writes in today's San Francisco Chronicle that Hillary Clinton has hired  Averell "Ace" Smith to run her campaign in California.

Apparently there's a new name (at least to me) related to the US Attorney probe -- John Nowacki.

From the Chicago Tribune:

John Nowacki -- who had limited courtroom experience when he was promoted into a senior position overseeing federal prosecutors -- has quietly played a key role in the campaign to contain the fallout. That campaign, as much as the dismissals themselves, has crippled the department and threatens to topple Gonzales.

Silly me, I thought Alberto Gonzales would have played the key role, but after listening to his testimony today, I don't think he's played a key role in anything...

As I was watching the movie “Dave” the other day, I wondered why we couldn’t have a president as cool as president Dave Kovic as played by Kevin Kline.  Then I realized, if you stack George W. Bush up against movie presidents, he comes out looking pretty poor.  Here’s a rundown of some of my favorite movie presidents and how George W. Bush measures up.

James Risser wrote about Monica Goodling's breakdown in David Margolis' office -- sobbing for 45 minutes relating her fears she would have to quit.

Joe Anthony yesterday posted a response to Joe Rospars on his MySpace Blog.  

At today's White House Press Briefing, Dana Perino had this to say about the president claiming to be "the commander guy":

The Joe Rospars diary entry, "Our MySpace Experiment" is up to 988 comments at this writing.  The National Journal's "The Blogometer" has a piece about it and apparently what still hasn't been clearly answered about the whole Joe Anthony/Barack Obama MySpace dust up is whether Barack Obama's campaign asked Joe Anthony to name his price or whether Joe Anthony just demanded the money unsolicited.  

I read this essay yesterday by Elaine Holstein -- Jeff Miller's mother -- published May 4, 2000.  I thought of Cindy Sheehan as I read it, and thought of the many thousands of parents who have lost their children much too soon because of the "policies" of our current president.