Just come out and say it, Junior!

“Al-boy, you’re doing a heck of a job!”

I’m waiting for Bush Junior to just say that to Attorney General Alberto “Don’t Call Me Al” Gonzalez. He’s pretty much said everything else. Well, that and invite Al to go duck hunting with Dick Cheney. Then at least we’d know that AG-AG’s time would soon be over.

It will be interesting to see how long this will play out. Normally an Imperium appointee would have been kicked to the curb at the first sign of trouble, but good ol’ AG-AG is part of Junior’s inner circle. That’s his friend. That’s his buddy. That’s the guy who told him he could do whatever he wanted to by saying that America was in a state of war. Al gave him all of that unchecked, unquestionable power. He doesn’t want to give that up! Karl Rove may be Bush’s brain, but AG-AG is his will. Giving up on that is like giving up on his condescending glare.

Remember Donnie Rumsfeld? Junior had to actually LOSE a third of his political power before he fired Rummy! Seriously! Junior had all of the power in the world after 2004, and then suddenly he’s down to two-thirds of it. That’s how desperate things had to get to get rid of an inner circle player like Rummy.

AG-AG thinks that he’s safe. Junior is backing him a hundred billion percent… just like he backed up Rummy and Andy Card and “Brownie”.

Unfortunately, the longer he stays, the more tempted Congress will be to make life difficult for the Imperium. The Congress is issuing subpoenas to more of the inner circle players. They have already stripped away the AG’s power to appoint new US Attorneys without Congressional approval, which was AG-AG’s favorite PATRIOT Act provision. They’re threatening to strip away even MORE PATRIOT Act provisions… which they should just go ahead and do anyway instead of talking about it… unless this matter gets resolved quick.

And the fastest way to resolve this… is to get rid of AG-AG.

By the way, in case you’re wondering why more and more Republicans are jumping on the bandwagon on this issue, they pretty much figured that little secret out as well.

Like I said, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Are AG-AG’s days numbered? I guess we’ll just have to find out.