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This just in: the Republican Congressman who looks eerily like Dan Aykroyd has now called for Attorney General Gonzales’ resignation! The Associated Press reports:

“I trusted him before, but I can’t now,” said five-term Rep. Lee Terry, whose district includes metropolitan Omaha.

Gonzales’ credibility took a blow this past week during testimony by his former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sampson, who resigned March 12, said the attorney general was regularly briefed about plans to fire the prosecutors and was involved with discussions about “this process of asking certain U.S. attorneys to resign.”

How can Gonzales possibly manage to hold on to his job with the immense congressional Hollywood look-alike Congressional pressure?!

Jokes aside, this is the first fallout we’ve seen from Kyle Sampson’s testimony on Thursday. And he gave some great quotes too: “My views were that this was Democrat posturing and a witch hunt… My trust in him in that position has taken a hit because of these contradictory statements by him… Frankly, until these statements came out that contradicted his first statement, I was backing him, saying that he shouldn’t resign. Now I think that he should.“

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