From the Who Cares file: There are no sympathetic characters in this drama. Prez candidate and song stylist John McCain yesterday took an opportunity to try and position himself as a political outsider by calling for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ resignation. Why did it take him so long to say that he thinks Gonzo should go? Nobody asked him, he told The Politico yesterday.
“Out of loyalty to the president, he [Gonzales] should obviously step down,†McCain said. “He’s not serving the president well. I reached that conclusion a long time ago. I just haven’t been asked.â€
Gee, the biggest political story in the news and nobody has asked one of the putative GOP presidential candidates what he thinks on the topic? Maybe nobody cares. Or maybe they are afraid he’ll start singing again.
In related news, the Senate Judiciary committee is mathematically challenged:
On Wednesday, the Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the panel’s topic Republican, wrote to Gonzales seeking more information.
“By some counts you failed to answer more than 100 questions, by other counts more than 70, but the most conservative count had you failing to provide answers well over 60 times,†the blistering letter says.
Giving Gonzales more opportunitites to lie and obfuscate won’t accomplish anything, but it does give the illusion that the Senate is doing something. And maybe McCain should come up with a new tune for the Gonzales case, say, to the tune of Warren Zevon’s “Send Lawyers, Guns and Money.”
