AG Gonzales: The Goofy Look = He's Actually Goofy

You know that Elmer-Fuddian, "Did someone say my name?" goofy, almost child-like look that Alberto Gonzales is able to carry through Senate committee hearings? I always admired him for that. I thought there was something extra sinister about it - because it doesn't actually look sinister at all. And you know it's hiding something sinister, so... I mean the guy's the U.S. Attorney General. He's gotta have some serious backroom smarts going on behind that goofball face. That's what I always thought.

I was wrong.

Via 1115.org, the Washington Post:

Alarmed about the raft of allegations, several White House aides tried to raise red flags. But the normal investigation process was short-circuited, the sources said. Bush’s top lawyer, Alberto R. Gonzales, took charge of the vetting, repeatedly grilling Kerik about the issues that had been raised. In the end, despite the concerns, the White House moved forward with his nomination — only to have it collapse a week later.

Think of Bernard Kerik as a hurricane headed for the White House and Alberto Gonazales as the White House's Michael Brown. The guy, I'm now convinced, is a seriously dim bulb. Remember: Bush appointed him his AG from the ranks of his inner circle in Texas. Think of that. Those two probably felt like a couple of frat boys who snuck into the dean's office when Bush made the White House. This has to be applied to Rove too: forget the "Evil Genius" nonsense. Look at the last five years. It's been disaster after disaster with this crew, and they will rightly earn the title of - and go down in history for, their names emblazoned in house-sized letters on the forever-burning zeppelin that is their "legacy," as THE WORST ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. POSSIBLY THE WORLD.

These guys are just dopes. Every single one of them. Just dopes.