A couple of days ago when I heard that the first Republican had come out in favor of axing Alberto Gonzalez, my first thought was “Um.  John Sununu, right?”

Right.  John Sununu.  New Hampshire Senator, up for re-election in 2008, just saw his state go from an overwhelming Republican state legislative majority to an overwhelming Democratic state legislative majority, and just saw most of the Republican House members elected out in 2006.

The other guesses would have been Susan Collins of Maine and Norm Coleman of Minnesota and Gordon Smith of Oregon.  I don’t know my House members from impkiss, so I am sticking with the Senators here.
Gordon Smith appears to be pulling a fine line of letting people hear what they want him to, fork-tonguedly saying that “it would be helpful to have an attorney general that Congress could have more confidence in”, through an aide as it turns out.  This seems to be Smith’s strategeum — he made national headlines by coming out against the war in Iraq while being in a position for the Republican Oregonian editorial writer to explain how he did not.  (To be fair, he seems to be embracing any major initiatiative coming out of Governor Kulongoski, and former Governor Kitzhaber’s health care think tank.  Which makes for amusement more than anything else.)

Oddly enough, Pete Domenici remains out of my rubric of guesses on these matters.

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