It all falls into place

So Miers withdraws her nomination (yeah, it was her idea) and we're expecting indictments from Pat Fitzgerald's office literally any hour now. Even if the indictments are sealed, leaks are expected in a case this high profile. But they say that Fitzgerald is hardcore, so maybe he really won't allow a leak.

Here's my take. It'll be repeat the Saturday Night Massacre. Remember? That time that the President cleaned house at the DOJ until he found someone (Robert Bork) who was willing to fire the Special Prosecuter (in this case Archibald Cox) because he was getting too close. That's why Miers had to gotten out of the way. Hell, she may have been part od the plan from the beginning (after all the Miers nomination is only 3 weeks old). Bush nominates Gonzalez to the bench and has his replacement fire Fitzgerald. Having already put up one underwhelming candidate, Republicans are all kinds of ready for anyone even remotely qualified to support. Just like Nixon, only instead of firing his AG, he just promotes him to keep his mouth shut, which seems to be the Bush Method for dealing with staffers (which is like the Socratic Method but NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED). In fact, following the Bork thread, maybe Alberto Gonzalez will fire Fitzgerald as price of admission to the nomination. Just as a court nomination (first a circuit in the '70s and then to the Supremes in the '80s) was Bork's reward.

[UPDATE]

It looks like I'm not the only one to think this up.