[Mark-in-Kentucky]

This is not his best hearing. He hasn’t looked good.

No he hasn't, and that's a rank understatement.

I'm torn on this. Gonzales is obviously a boob, and I don't like having an obvious boob in the AG spot, even setting aside this justice department's highly questionable border prosecutions. By the same token, these firings should be a non-issue—though the aforementioned boobness has made them and issue—and I'm loathe to see the democrats handed a victory on it.

Meh.

[highball]

I'm torn on this. Gonzales is obviously a boob, and I don't like having an obvious boob in the AG spot, even setting aside this justice department's highly questionable border prosecutions. By the same token, these firings should be a non-issue—though the aforementioned boobness has made them and issue—and I'm loathe to see the democrats handed a victory on it.

I have the same mixed feelings on this.

I hate to give the Dims a single win, but Fredo is at best incompetent and at worst derelict in his duty, and he single-handedly turned this non-event into a genuine scandal by pretending that he had nothing to do with the firings (thereby making them seem shameful or improper).

Every day, I am thankful that we stopped W from trying to elevate him to a permanent SCOTUS spot.