Get out that Medal of Freedom, George!

When you've lost Newt Gingrich, you've lost the fight. When an established Republican can't find a defender for his actions on Conservative TV FOX News, it's time to get those resumes out to the golden arches.

Alberto Gonzales is starting to look a little burnt on one side. Perhaps it's time to flip him.

Impolitical has also drawn a bit out of the New York Times, which has taken it's own good time on this, considering they spiked a column which would have blown this whole issue into the stratosphere, before the 2004 elections, based on a bill of goods they were sold by the Bush administration.

What does the New York Times actually reveal? It was Dick Cheney who sent Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card to the hospital bed of then Attorney General John Ashcroft to attempt to coerce approval for continued covert and clearly illegal information gathering activities.

Impolitical makes this point:

Hardly surprising, it was apparently Cheney who ordered the attempted strong-arming of a sick man by Gonzales and Card. I had not read this to date. Even this past week, Schumer was asking Gonzales who sent him to the hospital to pursue this sickly course of action. Gonzales refused to answer. No kidding.

I love it when Cheney is involved. You just know someone is going to get tossed under the bus and Bill Kristol is going to start howling like a moonstruck malamute with one nut.

Let the games begin.

UPDATE: Lindsay points us to the Anonymous Liberal, who, as she says, is a lawyer and guest-blogger for Glenn Greenwald. A.L. provides a very readable summary of the perjury case against Gonzales, including the technical defense Gonzales would use to fight such a charge and which the National Review has already published in an editorial.