“I am not focusing on what the Senate is doing,” Gonzales said at a nuclear terrorism conference in Miami. “I am going to be focusing on what the American people expect of the attorney general of the United States and this great Department of Justice.”

Yes, my dear Americans - we must focus on things that are to be expected from this great Department of Justice! Warrantless wiretappings on every American, a national ID card, ‘enemy combatants’ being held indefinitely without the ability to challenge their detention, and firing federal prosecutors because they refuse to rush an investigation and make allegations not substantiated by evidence in order to influence an election are all things that I feel are important to the magnificent United States of America, champion of peace, justice, and love!

In all seriousness, how can he say such a thing with a straight face?

“This is a nonbinding, irrelevant resolution proving what? Nothing,” Lott said. “Maybe we should be considering a vote of no confidence on the Senate or on the Congress for malfunction and an inability to produce anything.”

Oh, really? I thought it was Mister Gonzales who ‘cannot recall’ any useful information?