Bush and Gonzales Still Desperately Cling to Fantasy

Brian Zick

Peter Baker and Dan Eggen for WaPo report: "Everybody at the White House … all think he needs to go, but the president doesn't," said a Republican who consulted the Bush team yesterday. Another White House ally said Bush and Gonzales are ignoring reality: "They're the only two people on the planet Earth who don't see it." A third Republican intimately familiar with sentiment inside the White House said the hope is that Gonzales will leave on his own. "At some point, he'll figure out that it's not a sustainable situation," the Republican said.

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