Gonzales Offers No “Pleasure for the President”

If America received a dollar over the past few months every time some White House official said the phrase “U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President” our nations debt would be gone. The great Jon Stewart even made fun of the phrase last month. So when President George W. Bush this week went back to the phrase, and then tried to defend his indefensible attorney general, it got me thinking: what sort of pleasure could Alberto R. Gonzales possibly be giving the President these days? And, no, this isnt a wind-up to some lame off-color joke. Surely the President is receiving no pleasure from the fact that the scandal over the firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys could have a negative impact on pending and future federal cases brought by the Justice Department. Surely the President is receiving no pleasure from the fact that day by day Republican

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