This is not my original observation–Daily Show got it, TPM got it, whoever saw Gonzales’s testimony got it–but man I just gotta highlight this quote from Gonzales:

“It would be pretty darn difficult, if not impossible, to make a decision for political reasons [at the DOJ] and expect to get away with it…if a career investigator, prosecutor, felt that uh, we were making decisions for political reasons to interfere with a case, you’d probably hear about it, we’d probably read about it in the papers.”

<spinn> man
<spinn> the white house has no freakin shame
<tieboy> technically, they can neither confirm nor deny the amount of shame they may or may not have
<spinn> comey was testifying today, he was talking about gonzales (when he was white house council) trying to get ashcroft to sign a white house order when ashcroft was in the hospital and doped up on drugs
<spinn> astonishing
<spinn> ashcroft was seriously ill, in intensive care for six days
<spinn> comey, acting AG when ashcroft was in the hospital, wouldn’t sign off on the order
<spinn> so the day before the deadline, comey gets a call from ashcroft’s wife saying that gonzales was going to the hospital to get (the not currently attorney general) ashcroft to sign it
<spinn> comey rushes to the hospital, beats him by minutes
<tieboy> classy
<spinn> and ashcroft says, what are you asking me for? I’m not AG right now, ask him (comey)
<spinn> gonzales just walks out without talking to either of them
<spinn> comey, by the way, says that he was actually surprised ashcroft was lucid enough to make this point, because he was pretty ill and doped up
<spinn> so basically gonzales was planning on showing up and taking advantage of a sick man so the white house could go on with wiretapping whoever they feel like
<spinn> and. my whole point here is that tony snow was asked about this today
<spinn> Tony Snow on Comey testimony describing nighttime Gonzales/Card visit to hospital to get sign off on illegal wiretap program from half-conscious John Ashcroft: Comey’s got “splashy testimony. Good for him.”
<tieboy> Tony Snow is a fucking lizard
<spinn> yeah it’s amazing
<spinn> I already grind some of my soul to keep doing this job
<spinn> but I could not imagine the death of self that job would require
<tieboy> he was being interviewed on NPR and I thought “Why bother?”
<tieboy> you know what he is going to say at all times
<tieboy> but man, what a piece of work. you can’t even really get mad at him because he’s so transparently evil

Update: Saw a transcript of that press briefing, here’s another great one: when a reporter asked about the White House trying to “take advantage of a very sick man,” Snow replies: “Trying to take advantage of a sick man — because he had an appendectomy, his brain didn’t work?” This from a guy who was just in the hospital for cancer treatments. I swear these people have no sense of irony.