Is Gonzales Gone-zales?

From the NYT today, a suggestion (surely, leaked by the White House) to U.S. Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales that he ought to be packing his bags: “The two Republicans, who spoke anonymously so they could share private conversations with senior White House officials, said top aides to Mr. Bush, including Fred F. Fielding, the new White House counsel, were concerned that the controversy had so damaged Mr. Gonzales’s credibility that he would be unable to advance the White House agenda on national security matters, including terrorism prosecutions.” Partisan use of the office was, of course, precisely why so many said he should not have been appointed in the first place. And insurance for Shrub against investigations under a Democrat-controlled Congress was surely why he was. Update: Timothy Noah on why Gonzales is the perfect fall guy.