Weasel of the Week Award!

The “Weasel of the Week” award goes to….

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez!

Our weasel earns his distinction for his now famous non-apology apology.

The AG had this to say about the firings of eight Assistant United States Attorneys because they didn’t toe the line and play politics with their investigation by investigating Democratic politicians instead of Republicans: “Mistakes were made here.”

Gonzalez didn’t say “I made a mistake.” He didn’t say, “They made me do it.”

He didn’t take the weight for this nasty bit of business. He didn’t point fingers at his bosses. Instead, “Mistakes were made here.” The mistake just sort of happened, you see. Nothing to get excited about. It was a “Things just happen, you know, so get off my back” kind of statement. No mea culpa. He could have said, “Damn, my bad”, then handed in his resignation and walked away from this already- in-shambles administration.

Nope. Instead we get, “Mistakes have been made here.” As in, “those gremlins will be swept out so that they can’t go on making mistakes like that. Bad gremlins!”

So come on up here Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, here is your Weasel of the Week Award! (and it’s only Wednesday!)