Waiting for Recess Time By Mimikatz

[Demeter]

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/07/waiting-for-rec.html

NY Times calls for Gonzales' impeachment if Solicitor Paul Clement will not appoint a competent special prosecutor to investigate the politicization of the Justice (or "Just-us") Department and Gonzales' lying about the Bush/Cheney regime's massive surveillance and data mining program. No one from the regime would even go on Fox News to defend him.

So what now? Josh Marshall notes that while several federal judges have been impeached and removed, no cabinet secretary has ever been removed from office via impeachment, because before it came to that the President always fired or obtained the resignation of the malefactor. But here it isn't so easy, as Josh points out.

Of course, here, as we've noted before, there is an extra wrinkle. Gonzales isn't any cabinet secretary -- not the Secretary of State or Interior. He's the Attorney General, which means that he's the one that can and is bottling up numerous investigations into the president and his appointees. Because the senate will never give the president another Gonzales, the man is literally irreplaceable.

But if the demands for Gonzales' resignation do mount, Bush may finally take his only possible way out--fire Gonzales and recess appoint a compliant new Attorney General, maybe someone on whom they have sufficient goods to compel him or her to take the job and do it right.

If I were Harry Reid I wouldn't give him the opportunity. Keep a skeleton crew in DC and schedule a vote once a week. Unless the Congress is really ready to take Bush head on, they'd be fools to leave town.