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Poetically, Gonzales got his final vindication from his original tormentor. The New York Times recently reported that the conversation in the hospital might have been about a “data mining” project in which authorities review telephone records and not the NSA's wiretapping program. So Gonzales could have been telling the truth. A perjury charge will never stick.
D'oh! Foiled again, Gonzales' persecutors now complain that he is, in the words of Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, “too clever by seven-eighths.” Not bad for a guy who, a few months ago, was depicted in the media and on left-wing blogs as an incompetent dolt.
The hapless members of the Senate Judiciary Committee obviously hold Gonzales in contempt. But they've got it backward. It's obvious from the way he answered their questions that the attorney general, in this matter, holds the committee in contempt – as should we all.
You know Bush couldn't afford to dump Gonzales in the rabid stages of the new congress' Jihad against him. That doesn't mean he can't or won't persuade him to step down in the near future but it was important for the administration to get through these investigations without any charges that could stick. And, I don't believe Bush is too concerned with impeachment as one of the reasons to stay with him. After this many years of moonbats pushing for impeachment and having not found any basis for doing so why should he worry about it now? 