Reply #45: My first reaction when I saw his resignation press conference

[JDPriestly]

was that he was scared. My second was that he was probably joining the Fred Thompson campaign.

Here is a possible theory -- just a wild guess. It's the kind of thing you can put in your pipe and smoke. (Figure of speech. I do not smoke anything ever. Period.) Rove is implicated and with him Bush and Cheney. (Bush's remark about going down the same road). Gonzales went to Iraq to convey the confidential information to General Petraeus and other top American representatives there to be prepared. Nancy Pelosi is next in line for the presidency. That is why she went to dinner with Bush and Ms. Bush just before the Congress went on recess. That is why she has been very solemn ever since. Oh, well I can dream, can't I?