Rats leaving the ship

Alberto Gonzales’ resignation today is surprising. I expected him to stay until the bitter end. In a few months we’ll probably know more about the circumstances of his departure, but my sense is that he, like Karl Rove and Tony Snow (the current White House press secretary who has also announced his departure) are confronting the darkness they have helped initiate. Rove was the brain behind the elections, but Gonazales was the rationalizing force behind Guantanamo, torture, and illegal war with Iraq — hardly insignificant contributions to the legacy of the Bush Administration. And Tony Snow, who serves as the Administration’s face to the press, does his part in dictating the party line to the press.

These people are leaving because they know something we don’t, something set to be revealed in the near future. Whatever it is, it is something that these men want nothing to do with.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Condoleeza Rice steps down in the next week or so as well. Bush’s inner circle appears to be losing key members of his old “Texas Crowd”; Rice, as an old friend of the Bush family, is an honorary member of that club.  She and Vice President Dick Cheney are really the last members left of the original Bush Administration. And, interestingly, none of Cheney’s closest aids have resigned along with the President’s.  Whatever it is that is causing these people to leave might be related to the 7 year political chess match between Cheney’s truly nefarious enablers and the mere toadies who surround Bush. Has Cheney finally seized the upper hand?

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