gonzAllAss Will Be Gone By:

[Dinger]

Poll question: gonzAllAss Will Be Gone By:

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Ritual Sacrifice on Friday

I suspect that some member of the cabal is gone on Friday - Waxman's hearings w/ Plame & Fitzgerald should add some more fuel to the pyre.

[Dinger]

2. Friday News Dump Anyone?

You're on the money Manny!

[POAS]

3. I'd like to see him gone but

I think the WH needs to keep him under the protective umbrella of "executive privilege" as long as possible.

[A Simple Game]

4. He sticks around as long as he can.

Gonzo is taking a lot of heat, once he is gone that heat is going to go to *.

No, Gonzo stays for a while yet.

[Na Gael]

5. First,

First, Mr. Gonzales has to admit his personal responsibility. He knew, first-hand about the operation to "cleanse" dissention. Unfortunately, any responsibility he has accepted to date has come with caveat. It will take force to remove him, and the President simply owes Mr. Gonzales too much at the moment...But that will change.

Mr. Gonzales' only excuse could be that he has spent too much time as of late, "crawfishing" for the President...But that opens a whole new topic for discussion, and I don't think he wants to go there.

IMO, the Dems are doing this the right way, as in peeling off the President's cabal. It exposes the Administration to public criticism, and a clean coup de grâce. The last thing Dem's need or want is to publicly single-out, and headhunt for the President on every issue.

Are they too cautious? They may be a bit gun shy, but with good reason: Dems know what the President's spin machine is capable of promulgating. The machine is scrambling to find ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to paint the Dem's sole purpose as that of vindication against this Administration, and not what it is: "Change. By the people, for the people." Progress while keeping the majority of the general public on board is a painstakingly slow process.

Many on this board are wise to this Administration. Many here wish the fall of this Administration had happened already, and are upset that it hasn't happened. You, are the forward thinkers, and need no further proof; However, there are a vast many folks who have just come round to your way of thinking, whose resolve has not yet steeled.

Will the Dems be able to clean house by the end of the President's term? Maybe...Maybe not. If relentless is their pursuit of the President, at the cost of the people's trust...The Dem's power will be short lived. Rather, they forge their power with the people's trust, and right the so many wrongs done over the last two Presidential terms. In chess, if you spend all your time chasing the Queen, you're gonna lose.