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GOOD CALL! I think Dick Durbin has the right idea in his suggestion for a possible replacement for Alberto Gonzales:
The White House yesterday denied reports that a search for a new attorney general had begun, and Bush called Gonzales in an expression of confidence. Yet Democrats did not shy away from discussing the qualifications a replacement nominee would need to win their votes.The only catch is, of course, that for some strange reason Fitzgerald garnered only middling marks from the crack in-house graders in the DoJ.�If it comes to that, we�ll take our responsibility very seriously,� Durbin said, giving Bush kudos for his selection of Robert Gates to lead the Pentagon. As for suggested replacements, he added, �I�d start with the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Illinois� � Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the Scooter Libby case who earned a lackluster rating in Sampson�s Justice memo.
--Sam Rosenfeld
