Prosecutors at this level of the organization are hired, not appointed. For the record, Atchison has been working at this office since the late 1980s.

There are now over 11,000 Google entries calling Atchison a "Republican," with many of them directly accusing Gonzales and the Bush adminstration for his perverse actions.

This is what happens when you forget to engage the brain before hitting the keyboard. Or if you don't care if something is true or not if it serves the agenda.

Frankly, given the amazing avoidance of the subject I'm seeing in the news, I'd lay better than even odds on "Democrat" at this point.

As though that actually had the slightest relevance to the party as a whole in the first place. But that's another subject.