American Spectator continues the story of the coup at DOJ:

“As another Department of Justice paper dump related to the botched firings of eight U.S. Attorneys takes place on Capitol Hill today, it is becoming increasingly clear that Department of Justice insiders have been using the controversy to perpetrate what some Bush Administration loyalists are calling a “coup.” Those activities appear to be occurring in the offices of the Deputy Attorney General and the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.

According to Senate Judiciary sources, committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy has asked his Democratic attorneys to examine whether Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty’s chief of staff, Michael J. Elston — by calling one of the outgoing U.S. Attorneys and discouraging him from speaking too negatively about the events — might have attempted to obstruct the House and Senate’s investigations of the U.S. Attorney firings. Elston has disputed that the calls were threatening.

The Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee, meanwhile, is looking into improper sharing of Department of Justice personnel records by career DOJ employees with members of the legal community.

“We’ve seen evidence that some state and federal judges with ties to the Democrat Party were given personnel and performance review materials about certain U.S. Attorneys across the country,” says a Judiciary Committee staffer. “Some of the review materials were never seen by the Attorney General and his staff, but were reviewed within the Deputy Attorney General’s office, as well as by professional staff at the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. [The leaks were] clearly part of a campaign to embarrass the U.S. Attorneys.”

Meanwhile, The American Spectator has learned that members of McNulty’s staff are supporting the possible nomination to one of the vacant U.S. Attorney slots of a former government lawyer who had an affair with a colleague and now resides with not one, but two women in what some in the DAG’s office have termed a “tri-sexual” relation”

Think this just hyteria, then give a read of this:

“Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has collapsed, according to party sources familiar with the discussions.

Among the names floated Monday by administration officials are Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and White House anti-terrorism coordinator Frances Townsend. Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson is a White House prospect. So is former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, but sources were unsure whether he would want the job.

Republican sources also disclosed that it is now a virtual certainty that Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty, whose incomplete and inaccurate congressional testimony about the prosecutors helped precipitate the crisis, will also resign shortly. Officials were debating whether Gonzales and McNulty should depart at the same time or whether McNulty should go a day or two after Gonzales. Still known as “The Judge” for his service on the Texas Supreme Court, Gonzales is one of the few remaining original Texans who came to Washington with President Bush.

In a sign of Republican despair, GOP political strategists on Capitol Hill said that it is too late for Gonzales’ departure to head off a full-scale Democratic investigation into the motives and timing behind the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

“Democrats smell blood in the water, and (Gonzales’) resignation won’t stop them,” said a well-connected Republican Senate aide. “And on our side, no one’s going to defend him. All we can do is warn Democrats against overreaching.”

We’re going to do a lot more than just “warn them”. We are not in “dispair” but getting mad as hell. We are greater in number than they could possibly muster or maintain and we will show our displeasure for inaction and yellow-belly fear by Republicans come 2008 and beyond.

Either fight and stop giving up scalps to the left, or face the music at the polls. We will clean house.

As for the Democrats….

Remember my analogy of the wolf. When Eskimos want to kill a wolf they dip a knife in seal blood and let it freeze in the night air. They then tie the knife to a stick and place the stick in the ground. So that it’s sort of a “blood popcycle”. When the wolf comes upon the “treat” they begin to lick the knife to taste the blood. As they continue to lick they cut their own tongue, mixing their own blood with that of the knife. Then as they begin to lick in an animal frenzy before long they pass out and die from the loss of blood, so insane with the thirst for blood that they don’t see their demise coming.

UPDATE: More on McNulty’s backstabbing here.