Well, Fuck My Cluster

The federal prosecutor purge is turning into a serious Bush administration clusterfuck. (My earlier post, All the Way to the White House, has a summary of today's Times and WaPo coverage.) TPM Muckraker's got a useful timeline I recommend, especially if you're just getting up to speed on this story—which hasn't been getting much interest, comments-wise, as I've been posting about it, no doubt due to total and unmitigated scandal fatigue. It does seem a bit like all the other outrages that never amounted to anything and fell off the front pages without the merest hint of accountability, and it's hard to muster any more energy after watching every member of the criminal enterprise known as the Bush administration—with the exception of Scooter "Pardon Me" Libby—escape unscathed from all manner of lawbreaking and scandal for years. But this one became worthy of everyone's attention the moment Gonzo's chief of staff—a man smack in the middle of all this shit—resigned yesterday. On a Monday. When that shit can't wait until Friday afternoon, it's serious.

Anyway, Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is pissed: "I am outraged that the Attorney General was less than forthcoming with the Senate while under oath before the Judiciary Committee. It is deeply disturbing that this plan appears to have originated from high-ranking officials at the White House and executed in secret with a complicit Department of Justice. … The President of the United States and the Attorney General are responsible for setting the moral standard for this Administration. Apparently this matter does not bother them but it does bother me, and we will summon whoever we need in our hearings to get to the bottom of this."

Go get 'em—and don't let 'em go.

Don't make us regret believing in you, Dems. Be better than them. And, if I may make one more modest request…fuck those unscrupulous fuckers once and for fucking all!

UPDATE: Schumer gets serious at a press briefing: "This weekend, I called for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to step down. Today’s staff resignation does not take heat off the Attorney General. In fact, it raises the temperature. Kyle Sampson will not become the next Scooter Libby, the next fall guy. Either Attorney General Gonzales knew what his chief of staff was doing—that’s a pretty severe indictment—or he didn’t, which means he doesn’t have the foggiest idea of what’s going on in the Justice Department. We now have direct evidence that Attorney General Gonzales was carrying out the political wishes of the President in at least some of these firings. A startling amount of information about the White House’s role has emerged in the past few days. Attorney General Gonzales’ chief of staff withheld information on the White House’s role in the Justice Department in terms of who was preparing to testify to Congress. Attorney Gonzales’ chief of staff may well have obstructed justice."

Think Progress has the video and the full transcript. There's more, and it's good.