Two things missing from President Bush’s statement on Alberto Gonzales: an announcement of his replacement and an explanation of what specifically drove him to resign now. Instead, there was a terse but firm defense of Gonzales’s performance — did you know he was “effective” at combating gang violence? — and an insistence that Gonzales was hounded from office by “months of unfair treatment”:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180062