Firedoglake liveblogs the Gonzales hearings

For more on the Senate hearings with Alberto Gonzales, Firedoglake is liveblogging them. Here are this morning's hearings, presented with the earliest at the bottom of the list and the last at the top:

• Alberto Gonzales testimony, Part VIII
• Alberto Gonzales testimony, Part VII
• Alberto Gonzales testimony, Part VI
  [Lunch break]
• Alberto Gonzales Testimony, Part V
• Alberto Gonzales Testimony, Part IV
• Alberto Gonzales Testimony, Part III
• Alberto Gonzales Testimony, Part II
• Alberto Gonzales Testimony, Part I
• Just warming up?

Is the US attorney scandal the one that ties all the others together and to the White House?

I suspect that the US attorney scandal represents a severe overstep by the White House, Karl Rove in particular, and may become similar to the Nixon "Saturday Night Massacre." Phoenix Woman over at Firedoglake proposes that it is the key link in a Grand Unified Scandal Theory.

Her idea is more fully developed (and already written) than mine is, so just go over there and see what you think. Oh, and remember what it was like to read and write stuff like this before hyperlinks? I sure do. God! I love hyperlinks!

Great News! Jane Hamsher's back from her surgery!

Jane Hamsher, who was blogging away with great aplomb at Firedoglake, was informed by her physician that her breast cancer had recurred and she required immediate surgery. So she did.

Now, in an incredibly short time, she has gotten out of the hospital and returned to her keyboard. This is great news. As good as the bloggers at Firedoglake are, there is a massive hole when Jane is not blogging.