William F. Buckley on the Gonzales question:

“Of one thing Mr. Bush is manifestly guilty. It is the criminal (in the metaphorical sense) mismanagement of the whole business of the U.S. attorneys. The fault is not personal; it was probably the attorney general and other advisers of the president who took so many clumsy steps. But Mr. Bush’s stress on his rights invites a coordinate stress on his responsibilities. “These attorneys,” he said, “serve at my pleasure.” Right. But presidential pleasures have to rest on defensible grounds.”

While I know he is the “dean of conservatism”, he is quite wrong in this assumption of “malfeasance” as are others on the right who seemed in lockstep with the insanity of the democrats who insist on a crime present that could not possibly be there.

First no matter what the emails say, don’t say, or whatever, they do not show any instance of illegality, nor anything out of the ordinary for White House communications. Fact is that those who are “oohing and aahing” over their details seem competely ignorant to the nature of the type of communication that takes place in Government.

To the amature investigator they’re content may sound ominious, but from my informed eye there is absolutely nothing I see that even suggests an impropriety or some evil scheme, and yes I have been sifting through them as well. As I said before, rather than show some sinister scheme they show a carefulness that is completely mind-boggling. It’s almost that they were too careful that the prosecutor replacements were accomplished to have the least effect on all those involved.

Hell, at least they weren’t given a scant ten days to clear out.

You can call Gonzales a confused soul or idiot and maybe even President Bush a “criminal mismanager” (sounds personal on the part of WFB imo), but the fact is that nothing seen so far needed to come to where it’s at today.

On the fact that the administration didn’t handle the press portion of the operation correctly we can agree, but then PR has never been a Bush administration strong point. Nevertheless to give the Democrats the scalp they want will do nothing but open the flood gates, because as I said on the show today they won’t be happy until they have impeached President Bush.

While even that act would cause no shed tears on some conservatives – especially on the far right – because of immigration issues, Harriett Miers, etc, nevertheless it’s time to stop kow-towing to Democrats who are in no position to throw stones in regards to corruption or ineptness.

What we are watching is a story that has grown far beyond the original script, on the par of a plant growing from a pebble. Grown in large part with the meme enabling of those on the right who have jumped on the happy-juice bandwagon with the Democrats.

Since it’s Sunday the Good Book says, “A house divided cannot stand”

Oh, and spare me the “We need to be above reproach” speeches as well. The fact is that nothing has taken place here, except in the fantasies of those of both the left and the right.