By Bruce B. Brugmann
From time to time, I will pass along articles that I think are particularly timely and cogent.
This week’s piece by John Nichols, in the Nation’s “Online Beat,” gets to the heart of the issue of the Gonzalez and Karl Rove resignations.
He writes, “The essential question with regard to Gonzalez remains the same as the question that Leahy ((Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont) laid down when Rove said he would go. What are these people so desperate to hide.
“The answer is that, just as Gonzalez and Rove served Bush rather than the Constitution, they now seek with their resignations to protect Bush–and Vice President Dick Cheney–from investigations that are necessary to any serious effort to restore the primacy of the founding document in the affairs of the nation.” B3