After watching the shows yesterday, I don't know how much longer Alberto Gonzales will be able to stay on as Attorney General. He's scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 17, but it's hard to see how he'll be able to produce answers that will satisfy either side. He's going to end up looking deceitful or incompetent, and either of those are losing propositions for him.

Gonzales already lacks any real support in Congress, and you can expect whatever support he still has to evaporate after his testimony in two weeks unless he somehow dazzles. Obviously, President Bush once again plays the role of "the decider," and Bob Novak reports today that a good source told him "the president never will ask Gonzales to resign."

If that's true, Gonzales should do the president a favor and submit his resignation. Staying on is only going to be a further drag and distraction for the administration. It may be unpalatable to some Republicans for a Bush cabinet member to "sacrifice" himself to the blood-thirsty Democrats. But, quite frankly, they didn't take Gonzales' scalp as much as he gave it to them by bungling the matter and then not being fully candid about his role.