Loyal Bushies are out to get Gonzales

It's worth noticing that the pressure on Gonzales is coming from inside the White House, too.

Reading this WaPo piece, notice how Gonzales is the only White House official named in the disaster that was the Kerik nomination.

A reconstruction of the failed nomination, assembled through interviews with key players, provides new details and a fuller account of the episode -- how Giuliani put forward a flawed candidate for high office, how Bush rushed the usual process in his eagerness to install a political ally and how Gonzales, as White House counsel, failed to stop the nomination despite the many warning signs. "The vetting process clearly broke down," said a senior White House official. "This should not happen."

Whether the intention was to take down a drowning Gonzales, or just an attempt to sink responsibility as Gonzales is going down anyway, somebody wanted his name on Kerik. Interesting.

Also: Two pieces on the ascension of Pat Robertson's Regent University and Monica Goodling. (Boston Globe, WaPo)

(NYTimes) Gingrich calls on Gonzales to resign.

Also: Two looks at the shenanigans around politics and the US Attorney in Wisconson. (Milwaukee Journal blog, Carpetbagger)