Should Attorney General Gonzales Resign?

On Tuesday (here), I blogged about Congressman Tom Tancredo’s call for the Attorney general to resign because of his immigration failures.  My friend Jorge Mariscal at UC San Diego wrote an op/ed (here) on the Attorney General. His bottom line: “Attorney General Gonzales should resign because he chose to place his loyalty in one man rather than serve the interests of his community and of the nation. ”

KJ

P.S.  Ruben Navarette defends the Attorney General in a special to CNN (here) entitled “Gonzales being whacked like a piñata,” which begins:

In the flap over the ousted U.S. attorneys, Alberto Gonzales has been hoisted up as a political piñata. The nation’s first Hispanic attorney general is being pressured to resign by — pick ’em — Democrats trying to make hay, an elite media that long opposed him, civil libertarians who condemn administration policy on detainees and wiretaps, conservatives who think Gonzales is too liberal, and liberals who think he’s too conservative. The list even includes a pair of immigrant-baiting members of Congress — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado — who fell out with Gonzales over the prosecution of two ex-border patrol agents. Leading this lynch mob are white liberals who resent Gonzales because they can’t claim the credit for his life’s accomplishments and because they can’t get him to curtsy. Why should he? Gonzales doesn’t owe them a damn thing.

KJ