After the previous blog entry was re-posted at www.smirkingchimp.com, I was surprised by a few claims that the WP article mentioned was actually about Gonzales' loyalty rather than the president's.

The article, again, is titled "In the end, realities trumped loyalty," on the front page of today's Post. Here are excerpts from the article, all of them following the WashPost line of the past six or seven years about Bush's 'loyalty':

"Yesterday's resignation announcement by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales underscored once again the damage that can be done when loyalty becomes paramount in presidential decision-making." ...   more »

The big local-national news item du jour is Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation, and nobody is a mind reader. It is impossible to say with certainty whether Gonzales resigned or was forced out, although I lean toward the former view.

I admit that I cannot help sympathizing with Gonzales personally, even though I opposed most of the policies he supported from early on. Partly, I was influenced by a book: while waiting in a DC library one day last spring, for one of those wonderful tax-aide volunteers to help me with my only-too-qualified-income IRS return, I picked up a recent ...   more »