Reply #5: Well, I think it's a firm possibility. Right now, they're giving him enough rope to hang himself.

[MADem]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/23/AR2007072300579.html

The House Judiciary Committee announced yesterday that it will press toward a constitutional showdown with the Bush administration over the U.S. attorney firings scandal, even as embattled Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales vowed to stay on and "fix the problems" that have damaged the reputation and morale of the Justice Department.

John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), the House Judiciary chairman, said his committee will vote Wednesday on contempt citations for the White House chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten, and former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers, both of whom refused congressional demands for information on the dismissals after President Bush invoked executive privilege.


The move puts House Democrats on a legal collision course with the White House, which said last week that it would not allow the Justice Department to prosecute executive branch officials for being in contempt of Congress.

Gonzales's promise to remain in office, made in written testimony to be delivered today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, comes as many Justice Department employees say they are dispirited and have little confidence in their politically wounded leader.