[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gone back to sticking with strict neutralityin the race between Senators Obama and Clinton, based on her statementat the California Democratic convention that “both of them are great”,reports the San Francisco Chronicle. (The third of the 66 Californiasuperdelegates have yet to choose their candidate, however, wereperhaps hoping for a tip.) Maybe it’s because of that letter from thebig, bad Clinton donors?

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), on other hand, has freely expressed his opinion that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the racefor the good of the Democratic party, reports the LA Times. Accordingto Leahy, “"Sen. Clinton has every right, but not a very good reason,to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to."

Californians have (slightly) decreased their consumption of gasoline two years in a row,which is unprecedented behavior outside of a serious recession, reportsthe SF Chron. According to Daniel Sperling, head of the UC DavisInstitute of Transportation Studies, "The time of gasoline-useincreases is probably over.”

Photo courtesy of Dai Sugano of the San Jose Mercury News. 

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

This Week (ABC): Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are the headliners today. As Senate Democrats call for the appointment of a spcecial prosecutor to investigate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for perjury and Congress charges White House aides with contempt, Sens. Schumer and Hatch join George to discuss the fallout.

Next, in a Sunday EXCLUSIVE, the co-chairs of the President's bipartisan Commission On Care For America's Wounded Warriors, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala discuss the report they released earlier this week.

On our roundtable, Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria, ABC News' Cokie Roberts and David Gergen of Harvard University join George to debate the week's politics.

Face the Nation (CBS): Topics:Alberto Gonzales, Politics, And Trouble In Sports. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) discuss Gonzales.

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

Yesterday, Senator Patrick Leahy called Bush's refusal to release White House documents, "Nixonian stonewalling." Leahy added, "In America, no one is above law."1

When Bush refused to comply with Congressional subpoenas regarding the U.S. Attorneys firing scandal he was really flaunting his disdain for the Constitution.

This standoff will likely lead to the Supreme Court. But we know that the Court is stacked in Bush's favor.

There is another way to hold the Bush administration accountable. Besides Bush and Cheney there has been one figure at the center of the warrantless wiretapping program, the torture of America's prisoners, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, and the U.S. Attorneys firings. That man is Alberto Gonzales.

Democracy for America is pushing for the removal of Gonzales because impeachment is one avenue towards accountability that even the Supreme Court can't stop.

Keep the pressure building with an end of quarter contribution of $15!

https://contribute.democracyforamerica.com/gonzo

by dday [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

The one, and perhaps only, hard piece of accountability that has come out of the widening US Attorney scandal is that the Congress passed legislation striking out the provision in the PATRIOT Act that allowed the Justice Department to appoint replacement federal prosecutors without seeking Senate confirmation.  The new law passed in both Houses with expansive, veto-proof majorities (94-2 in the Senate, 306-114 in the House). Any veto would be overridden, so the President has no choice but to sign the bill.

Except he hasn't yet, and the hip-pocket veto has enabled Abu G to strike again - right in our own backyard of Los Angeles.