Ocelopotamus

It’s starting to look like we won’t have Abu Gonzales to kick around much longer — even the Republicans are beginning to pile on. Now we’re being told that even Bush is “not happy with” Gonzales, which is a little like my foot being angry at my big toe, but there it is.

This bit by Ruth Marcus in yesterday’s Washington Post really says it all:

This is a man whose memory is so foggy that George W. Bush — not exactly Mr. Detail — has a sharper recollection of their conversations than the attorney general does. The president, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, told Gonzales that Republicans were complaining about prosecutors failing to aggressively pursue voter fraud. Gonzales doesn’t recall the conversation.

I’m sorry, is there somebody he’s paying more attention to than the president of the United States?

Ouch. The “I don’t recall” excuse has been wildly popular since Reagan used it with such great success during the Iran-Contral scandal. But it seems like the mediatrons are at long last starting to get tired of hearing it. Maybe thanks to the Libby trial it’s finally jumping the shark?