"No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth." --Lucretius
I just read Kagro X's important diary Does your delegation know what inherent contempt is? about how we need to lean on our individual Congress members to enforce their authority to compel the administration to acquiesce to subpoenas. It involves obscure legal stuff along with much poking and prodding.
Not withstanding that we live in a bizarro world where the so-called president can say with a straight face that Gonzo's testimony bolstered his confidence in the man, even Rightwing bloggers are giving up on Gonzalez. Not to mention Bob Novak. Nonetheless, though, Gonzo still remains and Emperor Bush still has enough people ignoring the fact that he's naked.
However, we can brake it down for the simple-minded Bushies to a level that even they can't deny...
The best face they have tried to put on this is that Gonzo sat in on a meeting for an hour and then signed off on something unprecedented without even knowing what he was signing off on; and they claim that that's competence. It was Kathy Malloy who made a point to underscore that that's their default position. And I can't imagine ever having a simpler, more black and white, irrefutable case for getting the Republicans and the MSM and all those who blindly carry Bush's water to have to concede that it's the height of incompetence and/or disingenuousness for Bush to stand by Alberto in light of such a claim.
Half the reason the anti-Bush contingent hasn't been able to make any of the scandals stick is because there are too many of them, so the focus on any one scandal never goes deep enough for the average MSM crowd. So it's incumbent upon us to beat this point to death. Harp on it on all of the blogs and leftwing talkshows daily and force the opposition and "Liberal Media" lapdogs to have to address this point. Back them into a corner. We know how good they are at wiggling out stuff with their Orwellian doublespeak and such, but even the National Review Online is saying
It has been a disastrous morning for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The major problem with his testimony is that Gonzales maintains, in essence, that he doesn’t know why he fired at least some of the eight dismissed U.S. attorneys. When, under questioning by Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, Gonzales listed the reasons for each firing, it was clear that in a number of cases, he had reconstructed the reason for the dismissal after the fact. He didn’t know why he fired them at the time, other than the action was recommended by senior Justice Department staff.
There are 1001 and one reasons why someone such as George McGovern was prompted this week to say that he expects Bush and Cheney will be forced to resign. But we only need to coalesce around one in order to force the argument on the public and Republican leadership that these men in the White House have zero credibility, and therefore must resign.
The fact that they won't readily acquiesce to such a demand is not a reason to insist upon to the MSM and Republican Congress members. Because to say that it's not going to happen is circular logic: if everyone says it can't happen then we won't create the leverage needed to make it happen. But if most everyone DID insist upon it...
As William James has said: "If we believe in the possibility of some future event taking place, then this belief increases our power to help make the event happen when the time comes for action."