Making crazy OK

Ann is one of my favorite people in town, but I think I disagree with this post:

In a Legal Times profile from 2004, Paul Clement is described this way:

"He can make the unreasonable sound reasonable."

That, in a nutshell, seems to be the job description for an AG in the Bush era.

But Alberto Gonzales wasn't able to do that at all. What he was able to do was tell transparent lies about the unreasonable, and to such an inept degree that he lost the support of nearly everybody in Washington, including most Republicans who worried that he'd jeopardized their fully insane policy objectives. The one hold out, of course, was George Bush who refused to fire him and probably would have kept him aboard until 2009 had Gonzales himself not realize what a sham his entire professional existence had become and belatedly resigned in disgrace.