By George, I think she's GOT IT!

Dahlia: They're hiding something in the White House.
Higgins: I think she's got it. I think she's got it.
Eliza: They're hiding something in the White House.
Higgins: By George, she's got it. By George, she's got it.

(with apologies to Lerner and Loewe)

i must agree with dahlia lithwick... at this stage of the attorneygate game, chasing gonzo's lies is simply ignoring that the REAL problems are in the white house...

Alberto Gonzales is in his happy place. He enters the hearing room in the Rayburn Building for his testimony before the House judiciary committee smiling the smile of a man who sleeps well each night, in the warm glow of the president's love. Gone is the testy, defensive Gonzales who testified last month before the Senate. Today's attorney general breezes into the chamber with the certain knowledge that having bottomed out in April, he has nothing left to prove. His only role in this scandal is as decoy: He's the guy who runs out in front of the hunters and draws their fire so nobody pays any attention to what's happening at the White House.

and those REAL problems at the white house would be...?

The White House wanted party loyalists placed in either key battleground states, or in states where Republicans were being investigated or they thought Democrats should have been. Gonzales rolled out the welcome mat at the Justice Department and told them to install whomever they wanted while he played hearts on his computer. If Gonzales truly wants to rebut that narrative, he needs only to offer some plausible alternative. Anything at all. But he doesn't. He offers only distractions.

so, what's next...? the trail needs to be followed while it's still warm...

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