"Republicans close to the White House" said Thursday that the choice of Alberto Gonzales "as attorney general was part of a political strategy to bolster" his "credentials with conservatives and position him for a possible Supreme Court appointment," the New York Times reports.

This is Bush's crony known recently for his memo supporting the administration's disregard for the Geneva Convention and when Bush was governor of Texas, the guy who filtered all the requests for clemency of death row prisoner's despite some evidence of innocence. And we will get HIM as a new Supreme Court Judge??

Somehow "Out of the pot and into the fire" comes to mind.