One Hot Tamale in Mexico

HuffPoster Marty Kaplan is shocked and appalled and dreaming of impeachment:

"Fresh from his Nixonian press conference at the Justice Department, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has now taken his passive-exculpatory 'mistakes were made' show on the road -- the media road. I caught his act on MSNBC, where anchor Alex Witt's follow-up to Gonzales' opening lie was, 'How does this differ from President Clinton's mass dismissal of US Attorneys?' -- a journalistically bizarre attempt to elicit a White House talking point whose message (US Attorneys are political appointees) is in blithe contradiction with another White House talking point (these firings weren't political, they're merit-based).

"I also saw Gonzales interviewed on CNN, where anchor-bobble Tony Harris wrapped by telling viewers that 'no one's been accused of criminality,' conveniently ignoring charges that Gonzales lied under oath to Congress, or that New Mexico Republicans Pete Domenici and Heather Wilson obstructed justice by pressuring US Attorney David Iglesias to trump up a pre-election indictment of a Democrat.

"Sooner or later, it will all come out -- not only this Gonzales/Rove/Miers sewer, but all the other depredations visited on us by the Bush Administration."

This just in, from a NYT sitdown:

"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton foresees a 'remaining military as well as political mission' in Iraq, and says that if elected president, she would keep a reduced but significant military force there to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military."

The left, already suspicious of her non-apology on the war, will not be happy.

And here's the Bill Factor again:

"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, pledging to stand by the first responders who loyally defend their communities, reminded firefighters yesterday of something her supporters hope voters will forget: she knows something about loyalty from the tests of her marriage.

"'I'm a little experienced in staying the course, and sticking with people who stick with me,' said Clinton, drawing applause and knowing chuckles from a ballroom filled with enthusiastic members of the International Association of Firefighters," reports the Boston Globe.

This is kinda juicy, from Hotline:

"In his upcoming memoir, Dem strategist Bob Shrum suggests John Edwards 'was skeptical about voting for the Iraq war resolution and was pushed into it' for political reasons. Shrum writes that he regrets advising Edwards to vote for that war, and 'said if Edwards had followed his instincts... he would have been a stronger' WH candidate in '04. Shrum's book, 'No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner' due out in June, 'provides an account of Edwards' private discussions leading up' to the Iraq vote. Shrum writes that Edwards 'called his foreign policy and political advisers together' in his DC living room in the fall of '02 to get their advice. According to Shrum, Edwards was 'skeptical, even exercised' about the idea of voting yes and Elizabeth Edwards 'was forcefully against it.' "