How about we generate a "process" for getting this guy deemed incompetent?

I'm sure somebody could come up with a "test" based on the "evidence" of the "hearings." And then there could be a "consensus" based upon gathering information from some "comments" by "people" - and before you know it, there would be a "decision" and then we could put the "incompetent AG AG" in a "hospital" - for "life."

Word is "snake." Yup, I think we're already moving in the right direction, guided by this here consensually-generated list of security words.

"Gonzales: I think... I stand by the decision. In hindsight, I’m not happy with the process. I know that… to me, the process was important, too. And I think using a different process, we may have come out with different recommendations to me"

I thought he couldn't recall what the process was. How does he know that a different process wouldn't end up being the same as the first. Which of course, we still don't know what that was.

In judicial stature, he doesn't reach the kneecaps of the prosecutors he, or rather Sampson/Goodling, fired.

The most absurd exchange of the day was the one between Gonzo and Darrell Issa. The two simply fed off each other, as they came from the same litter.

One of his talking points is that the U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President. Yesterday when asked pointedly if the President told him who to fire, he emphatically said no. Is that not a contradiction?

His performance left me doubting that we'll here much from Goodling, immunity or not. He wasn't acting like he tthought the truth would come out. Watch Goodling take blame for everything in exchange for a promised pardon.

Not that it will be believable.

Paraphrasing Gonzalez: I don't know who was consulted or what they said and I do know that the guy I sent to get a consensus recommendation did a poor job so I don't know why these 8--oops 9-- individuals were fired but I DO know that that is wasn't for any improper purpose.

Just a small credibility problem particularly sincne he knows that one individual was added on Election Day although he doesn't recall why.

Beyond satire.

The best part of the clip is when the Congresswoman in the background busts out laughing and Gonzales has to choke back a laugh himself.

Who says that even if Gonzo "resigns so he can spend more time with his family" or is actually held to account by Congress and removed form office via impeachment, that there would be a nominated replacement AG?

Fortunately, as far as I know, there is no do over once someone is convicted by the US Senate via Articles of Impeachment.

I say we waterboard him and make him talk.

FYI to all - Gonzales called Chris Cannon this morning to say thank you and solocit advice! Contact Cannon's office and see if they deny it.

All Gonzales is really saying about changing the "process" is that he wouldn't have fired so many U.S. Attorneys on the same day, but would have spaced their firings out over a longer period of time, so as to try to keep it under the radar.

But Gonzales and his corrupt Republican pals got anxious after last year's elections, with only two years left under Bush to subvert and pervert our Justice Department to their evil ends, which led to the firings of so many U.S. Attorneys at the same time.

Security Codeword: WHEEL...as in what goes around comes around, as in what the "culture of corruption" Republicans have sown, they will reap.

Or as in the case of global warming, their children and grand-children will reap because "culture of corruption" Republican greed and denial has delayed the world doing anything about global warming until it just might be too late, visiting the sins of the Republicans on all of us, including the children of the world.

And all because Republicans have insanely obsessed over the issue of abortion. Why do I say insanely obsessed? Because by focusing on one issue, the Republicans have probably aborted the future of their own children and grand-children, and lain waste to the futures of countless children all around the world.

So WHEEL, what goes around comes around, and what the "culture of corruption" Republicans have insanely sown, they will reap.

I think the term "Fredo Logic" just might replace "Pretzel Logic". At least I think I think I do.

As a foreign observer I am quite frankly amazed. With very few exceptions the US congressmen and women were hopeless at asking and insisting on answers to obvious questions.

With the AG accepting that the 'process' was deeply flawed he should have been pursued relentlessly and forensically about the specific flaws, about his role in creating such a deeply flawed process and about how that process should and can be remedied.

There is no dispute that Alberto G. was personally responsible for the review and appointment system; he publicly 'accepts' responsibility for the results and for the decisions which created it in the first place. With the benefit of hindsight he says he would have done things differently. He approved the appointment of the key staff and sanctioned their role in reviewing and appointing USAs. He is the task master and he was the decider at the DoJ. What did he decide and when? Who did he appoint and when? What powers did he approve and when? What arrangements did he make for ensuring that things were done properly and when? If he cannot answer/remember then he isn't fit to be the decider.

Unfortunately he was allowed to play a poor innocent bystander in front of the HJC. An AG responsible for the creation of such a deeply flawed process surely has to do more than lament the process - he must accept responsibility for its failure and be precise in how things are going to be put right.

For the world's premier democracy the congressional scrutiny and accountability process looks hopelessly inadequate.

I just saw this (I'm getting overloaded on his answers), but isn't that Patrick Fitzgerald behind Gonzalez' right shoulder?