McClatchy has the scoop:
Presidential advisor Karl Rove and at least one other member of the White House political team were urged by the New Mexico Republican party chairman to fire the state’s U.S. attorney because of dissatisfaction in part with his failure to indict Democrats in a voter fraud investigation in the battleground election state.
In an interview Saturday with McClatchy Newspapers, Allen Weh, the party chairman, said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove and asked that he be removed. Weh said he followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.
“Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?” Weh said he asked Rove at a White House holiday event that month.
“He’s gone,” Rove said, according to Weh.
“I probably said something close to ‘Hallelujah,'” said Weh.
The bad news for the White House seems to be piling up faster than we can document the atrocities. Gail Collins attempts to document the atrocities of Alberto Gonzales’s Justice Department, but no brief essay can complete the job. Next week Valerie Plame Wilson will finally put to rest all the Toensing talking points about whether or not she was covert or served overseas in the five years prior to her outing.
Gonzales’ assistants will be testifying within the next two weeks. The Walter Reed scandal continues to grow. Iraq is as violent as ever. How much more of this can this administration endure. There are so many holes in the dyke it seems like a Katrina-like deluge is inevitable.
Not since 1952 have we faced an election where the incumbent administration did not field a candidate. The GOP has little incentive to stick with this catastrophic failure of a presidency.
I hope they soon start to put the nation and its laws and their own self-interest before any misplaced loyalty to a lawbreaker. Who will be out the door first? Cheney, Rove, or Gonzales?
