David Frum on his blog http://frum.nationalreview.com has a very good post on the U.S. Attorney situation, which I have cut and pasted below. His first point is the most important. We do not know that there was any wrongdoing. Republicans should not be in retreat mode on this yet. Republicans are on the defensive on everything and Republicans should realize if Al Gonzales is forced to resign, Democrats will be able to walk over the Bush administration until the end of 2008.

"Before my friends on the Corner succumb to the urge to let Al Gonzales take the fall in the US Attorney uproar, some cautionary thoughts:

1) Nobody has yet adduced a gram of evidence to suggest that anyone did anything wrong. All we know is that the White House replaced 8 political appointees with 8 other political appointees.

2) Why do you suppose Gonzales of all people has been made the target here? As far as we can tell, he had less to do with the substantive decisions than almost any of the other principals here. Could it be ...

and this takes us to the most crucial point:

3) That many Democrats and left-wing legal activists recognize that another vacancy may soon be opening on the Supreme Court - and that Gonzales would be a very difficult nominee for them to reject?

Ask yourself this: If Gonzales is knocked out of the game now - and a vacancy does open - who else could the president nominate who would be a) even half-way good and b) able to achieve confirmation? And ask yourself this: Do you suppose the Dems have not performed the same calculation?"