Over at AmericaBlog John is speculating on when Gonzalez is gonna resign (he sez the smart money is on "sometime this weekend") and asking

So who are they gonna get to replace him? Any former Senators come to mind?

  Read more…

This afternoon Randi Rhodes is pushing the story of Pat Tillman -- as told by his mother Mary, who can't quite bring herself to say that she thinks Pat might have been intentionally offed by the Army because of his anti-Iraq sentiments and his plans to publicly denounce the war, but who does say that 1. given all the bullshit they've been feeding her (and us) so far, she sure can't rule it out; 2. it is "ludicrous" to think Rumsfeld was not in on the coverup of her son's death; and 3. "Of course he was used by them" -- pointing out that Pat's death occurred right after Abu Ghraib, when the Shrubbery desperately needed a patriotic throat-catchin' piece of media gobsmack.