Losing Sessions

A snowstorm in the northeast. A Friday. Seems like the perfect time for a "resignation."

Separately, the House Judiciary Committee, opened a new front in its investigation of Mr. Gonzales, asking him to respond to an article published in The National Journal asserting that he had advised President Bush to effectively terminate a Justice Department inquiry into the program of domestic surveillance without warrants only after Mr. Gonzales learned he might be a subject of the investigation.

Even Republican defenders on Capitol Hill are expressing growing unease.

“I think the attorney general is going to have to explain himself because this has cast a cloud over the department,” said Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, before the latest disclosures. “How much is justified? I don’t know. But it has cast a cloud there.”

But will Rove testify before Congress? And other than a hummer, what exactly is considered an impeachable offense?