Dahlia Lithwick asked how it might serve the administration's interests to have a self-confessed incompetent running the DOJ.

The Gonzalez show reappears every so often to grab headlines. What purpose do shows serve? They entertain, they distract, they draw attention, they divert. We should stop wondering how the Gonzalez show serves the administration, and start looking around for whatever it's diverting us from. Incompetence isn't better than much, but it is better than, say, criminal behavior.

Impeachment may be the only thing that scares George W. Bush these days, and smart money says a fear of impeachment is behind everything: the rejected subpoenas, the Gonzalez saga, the clashes with Congress. Impeachment is the ball still being juggled; Gonzalez is merely the ball being dropped, drawing all eyes that-a-way.