All You Need To Know About The Rape Of Alberto Gonzales

....is in the first and last grafs of Brother Hinderaker's daily update:

The Democrats are going completely insane over Alberto Gonzales. Today four Democratic Senators released a list of items of false testimony that they claim Gonzales gave to various committees, and called for the appointment of a special prosecutor and a perjury investigation.

Hmmm. Democrats devolving into partisan insanity....over a completely false, trumped-up "scandal" blatantly fueled by an almost sectarian hatred in which there is not the remotest shred of evidence to back up their hysterical charges....the utter absence of which is forcing them to ensnare a Bushie in an equally trumped-up "process crime" in order to keep up the scandalmongering momentum in the absence of any White House panic....it all sounds vaguely familiar.

Ah, yes, now I remember:

[T]he Democrats' attack on Gonzales resembles the Scooter Libby prosecution, in that there was no underlying wrongdoing. The President replaced eight or nine U.S. Attorneys who had served out their terms with other qualified nominees. U.S. Attorneys are political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the President. That's really all there is to that story. But it became the pretext for a fishing expedition by the Democrats, and as soon as they found a conflict between testimony by two witnesses - something that inevitably happens in just about any investigation - they started howling for a perjury prosecution.

These are dark days in Washington, and not because of Alberto Gonzales.

And the President is supposed to dignify these outrages by throwing Speedy under the bus? What will that accomplish other than to trigger the partisan equivalent of throwing a lit match into a vat of jellied napalm? Does Ed really think the Dems would be finished with Gonzales or the White House over this non-matter just because Oh, Boy, Alberto was no longer the A-G? Can he not see the Watergate parallels the Left would gleefully inter, with Bush as Nixon and Gonzales as John Ehrlichman? Hey, Pat Leahy has already announced his next subpeona target: Karl Rove, aka neo-H.R. Haldeman. How much brilliance does it take to see the direction this farce is headed? Or that a presidential pink-slip might morph Speedy into John Dean out of estranged spite?

Bush already allowed one underling's life to be destroyed for absolutely nothing. To do so twice would be unconscionable - and the epitome of political idiocy.