CNN/NYT: Alberto Gonzales quits

"Drug?"

 

Sadly, I'm sure Saxby Chambliss sleeps like a baby.

 

Valerie Plame's name came to mind the moment I heard this on the radio. Actually, Joe Wilson and Gen. Eric Shinseki weren't far behind.

Then, the trickle became a flood and I stopped counting. Instead, I started marveling at the naked hypocrisy of such a statement.

 

It took some chutzpah, I'll say that.

 

Is "chutzpah" Yiddish for "tardsack"?

 

Not quite. It's nerve to the nth degree.

The best definition of "chutzpah" is a boy who kills his parents, then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he's an orphan.

 

You mean, like politicizing the justice department and then complaining that politics cost you your job?

That's the definition of chutzpah?

 

Yes. That would work as well.