Sacramento Bee: Impeach Gonzales

July 27, 2007
Sacramento Bee: Impeach Gonzales

Gonzales' performance shredded what little credibility he had left. On Thursday, four Democraic senators -- Feinstein, Charles E. Schumer of New York, Russell D.Feingold of Wisconsin and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island -- asked Solicitor General Paul Clement to appoint a special prosecutor to probe whether Gonzales had committed perjury in his testimony.

Sacramento Bee: There are no options for a graceful exit

July 15, 2007
Sacramento Bee: There are no options for a graceful exit

In these circumstances, as James Fearon of Stanford University wrote in the March/April edition of Foreign Affairs, "U.S. military intervention in Iraq is thus unlikely to produce a government that can survive by itself whether the troops stay 10 more months are 10 more years."

There are no options for a graceful exit. The choice is among unpalatable alternatives. Republicans and Democrats in Congress increasingly understand this. The problem is that President Bush still doesn't, and he is the one who must do the planning for a safe, orderly disengagement.