* Alberto Gonzales is still speaking at the Press Club next month, it’s just the attorney general who’s not. [Hotline on Call]
* Nancy Pelosi goes all the way to Syria for secret ingredient in the Al-Assad family hummus recipe. [Think Progress]
* It’s a pretty lonely planet at the State Department. [Outside the Beltway]
* TIME magazine not too interested in covering what’s going on this time. [The Carpetbagger Report]
* More battleships in the Persian Gulf are just what the doctor ordered. [The Left Coaster]
* How to find out who else is growing weed in your neighborhood. [Hit & Run]
* If you grow it, they will drive. [Just a Bump in the Beltway]
* “An extremely drunk ballerina elephant in tutus who has just lurched into the shop.” [1115]

* If all goes well, Iraq will be able to end just as well as Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Vietnam. [WP, NYT]
* Kyle Sampson sticks to the truth like stink on shit. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* John Edwards is the internet. [WP]
* Cabinet Secretary Judy Giuliani. [WP, NYT]
* Arresting illegal immigrants is so fun everyone should do it. [USAT]
* Guantánamo Bay II now selling, brand new cells will be walking distance to interrogation centers and hiking trails. [NYT]

* President Bush is sure “the American people will know who to hold responsible” when the Iraq war starts going really bad. [WP, NYT, WSJ]
* Alberto Gonzales gets his ass chewed - and not in the good way - by US Attorneys during his whirlwind tour. [NYT]
* Kyle Sampson is a snitch. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* Fred Thompson’s got that “conservative presence.” [WP]
* GSA Chief delivers several enthusiastic renditions of “I have no recollection Congressman.” [WP]
* British soldiers held in Iran getting “a constant supply of fluids.” [LAT]

* Gee, those Republicans still really love that Iraq War. [NYT]
* But hate that Attorney General. [NYT, LAT]
* Fired US Attorneys go on the Sunday shows and blast the White House, proving once again that jobless people with the least to lose, make the best teevee. [WP, WP]
* 2008 campaign may soon be even more diverse if midget Jew Michael Bloomberg plays the big blind. [WP]
* Adam H. Putnam’s life is like a compilation of all the wet-dreams Alex P. Keaton ever had. [NYT]
* Are there political improprieties going on at GSA? Is the Pope Catholic? [WP]
* Democratic Congress considers robbing the old to insure the young. [LAT]
* President Bush acknowledges the existence of income inequality, but won’t do anything about it until you get off your lazy ass and get to work. [WSJ]

* Exclusive interview with Karl Rove not enough for Senate judiciary committee that wants all President Bush’s horses, all President Bush’s men. [WP, NYT, LAT, USAT]
* The little inboxes sitting on White House computer screens are a treasure trove of hilarity, wrongdoing. [WP]
* David Iglesias makes demands. [NYT]
* Less than 3 percent of people with the same condition as Dick Cheney die from it. [WP, NYT]
* Al Gore gets treated like Forrest Gump around here. [WP, NYT] MORE »

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* Pat Leahy thinks Karl Rove needs to go under oath. Chuck Schumer thinks it’s “highly unlikely” that Alberto Gonzales will have a job after this week. [NYT]
* David Iglesias was the world’s greatest voter fraud prosecutor before he wasn’t. [WP]
* Carol Lam, on the other hand, got what she deserved for inconveniencing esteemed government officials like Duke Cunningham and Dusty Foggo. [WP, LAT]
* US Military is unprepared to begin new exciting wars. [WP]
* Patrick Kennedy tells Ted Kennedy to, “do it for the crazies dad, do it for me.” [NYT]
* State Department gives North Korea its drug money back. [NYT]
* What’s this “internet primary” all the kids are talking about these days? [WSJ]
* The Smithsonian: still free, thanks to tax-payers like you. [WP] MORE »

Poor Alberto Gonzales. He was Bush’s personal pet child-of-immigrants (“mi abogado”), and now, apparently, no one likes him anymore and this is all his fault. MORE »

Alberto Gonzales would like to let you know what he believes in. Children are our future, accountability, etc. etc. blah blah blah. And he’s Mexican! Fuck all y’all! MORE »

Ok, so the White House fired eight US Attorneys for sketchy political reasons. Everyone caught up? It seems, in hindsight, like a remarkably stupid decision, especially now that the congressional Dems are firing up the subpoenas and calling for Alberto Gonzales’ head. (Justifying torture? We’ll let that slide. Fire a lawyer, though, and you’re in deep shit, Mister.) MORE »