Reuters:
Key Senate Republicans on Sunday urged President George W. Bush to compromise with Congress over White House aides' testimony as support for U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales eroded further.
Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Gonzales would have to step down if he did not tell the truth when he told Congress that he was not involved in discussions about a group of fired U.S. prosecutors at the center of the Washington controversy.
"We have to have an attorney general who is candid, truthful and if we find that he has not been candid and truthful, that's a very compelling reason for him not to stay on," Specter said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Documents released late on Friday showed that Gonzales attended a meeting last November where the imminent carrying out of a plan to fire federal prosecutors was discussed.
Chuck Hagel told ABC's 'This Week' that Gonzales is no longer credible and the president should 'fix the problem.'
Meanwhile, the right wing blogosphere suddenly hates Gonzales. The Carpetbagger Report lists several rightie bloggers ready to throw Gonzales under the bus.
Of course, this was all originally nothing at all. Not even a real scandal.
How fickle the righties are...
