This Is How The Train Goes Completely Off The Tracks (Portland ME Press-Herald, via CommonDreams)

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Published on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by The Portland Press Herald (Maine)
This Is How The Train Goes Completely Off The Tracks
by Theo Stein
Good news: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has pledged to get to the bottom of the ruckus over the firing of well-regarded Republican U.S. Attorneys who may or may not have been canned for doing their jobs impartially.

If the embattled AG finds out that any of the decisions were motivated by, say, a desire to interfere with public corruption cases involving Republicans, “there will be swift and decisive action,” Gonzales told NBC.

However, the attorney general’s fact-finding mission (not to mention lawmakers’) may have been complicated Monday when Monica Goodling, his former senior counsel and White House liaison, had her lawyers announce she would invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

(Wait — isn’t that what people do to avoid lying under oath about a criminal act? If everything was above-board, why would she need to do that?)
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It’s like handing the keys to your new car to a demolition derby champ and wondering what the heck happened when your ride comes back missing its bumpers.

Conservatives would have a tough time arguing government is the enemy of the people if Republicans actually made it work, they argue. Thus, this snarky take goes, Bush has been an extraordinary success. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/28/155/