i think bush is dallying in firing gonzales because

he will find it nearly impossible to replace him with someone else who will loyally keep the lid on things.

once the doj has orders from a new attorney general, even a somewhat loyal bushie,

to let "the documents" out,

there will be no stopping the inferences that can be made from what has been released, more documents will be demanded, more bush loyalists will defect in worried self-interest

in short, in time, all hell will break lose in the bush presidency:

- more on the u.s. attny problem, for sure,

but

electronic spying, in general

-spying on american political and war opponents, american soldiers, and diplomats in particular

• using the doj to frame arab-americans for terror crimes, in order to pump up public alarm

• suppressing black vote with great focus

• suppressing the investigation of congressional corruption tied to military and intelligence  contracts originating in the white house, ovp,

Wow!

In other places (the VAGosphere, e.g.), you can hear Zapatero explain a few thangs to Catholic Spain:

so did rove, and gonzlaes, and monica goodling and kyle sampson, imio.

sampson chose the richard armatage road of being (more or less) out front, no attorney.

goodling got a (very expensive) attorney who devised a clever(?) fifth-amendment head fake.

but it was not just a fake, because, like the president, goodling likely committed obstruction.

so,

where are we now?

well,

just yesterday the home of representative  doolittle was raided by fbi.

today, rep doolittle resigned from his prominent congressional committee, without a squawk or a delay -unlike ney or cunningham.

so,

it looks to me like Abeu gonzales will be in charge of the doj at least until all the necessary retroactive  steps have been taken to inoculate those i mentioned above, including president bush, from obstruction charges.

in short, gonzo has a job to do, and that job is not finished yet.