A Modest Proposal

The furor over the fired prosecutors ins't going away soon, it looks like. Although, really, someone needs to come up with a catchy name for it – I'm sick and tired of “Blank-Gate” for every presidential scandal so things like GonzalesGate just aren't going to cut it. For one thing there's the matter of the gap. The apparently missing e-mails from the days when things were really starting to heat up. The administration claims it's only a holiday lull but, really, at this point I don't credit anything they say at face value. The DoJ doesn't grind to a halt for two weeks because it's Thanksgiving.

But I'd like to return to the President's news conference on Tuesday. During his speech, Mr. Bush defended his decision to keep his advisors from testifying by relying on the nebulous principle of executive privileged. Or, as John Oliver put it, he told Congress to go fuck themselves. They seem, rightly, to have ignored Mr. Bush's “reasonable proposal” in favor of, you know, their constitutionally mandated responsibility of oversight. And as one of those crazy, swirly eyed liberals who've been more than a little disappointed in the timid Democratically controlled Congress, that's a good sign.