If Bush asks for Gonzales' resignation, he'd have to resign himself

'splainin', 'splainin', 'splainin', 'splainin'...

Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday it's up to President Bush whether he remains in the administration and said he wants to stay and explain to Congress the circumstances surrounding the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.

Amid an escalating political row and calls from some Democrats for his resignation, Gonzales said, "I work for the American people and serve at the pleasure of the president."

"I think you can look at the record of the department in terms of what we've done ... going after child predators, public corruption cases," he said on NBC's "Today" show. "I think our record is outstanding."

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Bush retains full confidence in the attorney general, spokesman Dan Bartlett, traveling with Bush in Mexico, said Wednesday. "He's a standup guy," Bartlett said of Gonzales.

alberto has so much dirt on george, he CAN'T let him resign... bush is going to sit tight, let gonzo keep on 'splainin', and letting tony snow and dan bartlett keep on issuing statements of presidential support... the only way anybody is going to do any truth-telling is under subpoena, and, if subpoenas are issued, it will spark the consitutional crisis we've been expecting for so long... bring it on, i say...

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