I suspect most everyone who isn’t a political junkie like myself is so sick of the strange “Attorney General Alberto Gonzolas and the Prosecutor Firings” ongoing news story as to have stopped paying attention altogether. And indeed, as most news pundits acknowledge, the actual firings aren’t as surprising as the Justice Department’s (and specifically Gonzolas’s) complete bungling of the issue.
For those of you who have already tuned out (or never tuned-in) the Senate is eating Gonzolas for lunch, Republican and Democrat alike. Why? Because all his testimonies and responses to our legislative branch have been full of sloppy lies and inconsistencies. In other words, they are responding to the sheer and utter contempt that the Bush Administration has had for the legislative branch since Day One.
For the first four years, the Bush Administration behaved with what I always perceived as complete disdain for the legislative (and judicial) branches of our government, but while the Republicans were in charge, they were far more concerned with keeping their own political party in power than sticking up for themselves. I was constantly sickened by their utter lack of self-respect or backbone—they are after all the sole voice of the people in the Federal Government.
So now Republican lawmakers are finally showing resentment, chagrin, backbone… whatever. It should come as no surprise. After all they’ve probably been secretly swallowing a steady diet of bile for the last six years, and now that there’s no Republican Majority to protect, they can stand behind the Democrats (who are finally doing the job) with tacit support.
In a way I pity them: it must really be lousy living life with no balls.