Gonazles and Card: Grimm Reapers

Here's the thing: When Ashcroft isn't crazy enough for you, your wheels are off the tracks entirely. I never thought I'd say this - ever - but, "Well done, Ashcroft."

Gonzales and Card try to mug Ashcroft in his hospital bed to try to get him to approve illegal domestic spying. Ashcroft refused:

White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and President Bush's chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., were on their way to the hospital to persuade Ashcroft to reauthorize Bush's domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determined was illegal.

In vivid testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Comey said he alerted FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and raced, sirens blaring, to join Ashcroft in his hospital room, arriving minutes before Gonzales and Card. Ashcroft, summoning the strength to lift his head and speak, refused to sign the papers they had brought. Gonzales and Card, who had never acknowledged Comey's presence in the room, turned and left.

Naturally, the guy they sent to break the law is now in charge of national law enforcement.