Robert Novak joins call for Gonzales's resignation as Congress seeks immunity for Gonzales' senior aide, Monica Goodling.

Many know that I have called for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to be nudged out of his post. Now many in the GOP are making the same call, including Syndicated Columnist and Political Commentator, Robert Novak. In his piece, Bush's Barricade, Novak concluded: "With the administration in trouble on several fronts, the president barricading himself with Al Gonzales by his side does not help." Here are excerpts:
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The authoritative word from the White House was that Bush was adamant about retaining Gonzales as attorney general despite Republican demands that the president cut his losses.
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All the Republicans in Congress whom I contacted view this as pure folly.
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While the current cliche is that Bush never should have named Gonzales attorney general in the first place, the consensus in the administration was that Gonzales also was at sea in his first post, as White House counsel. Colin Powell, Bush's first-term secretary of state, was so appalled by Gonzales that he shunted contact with him off to Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage, who in turn handed him down to lower levels along the State Department chain of command.
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Bush's position, however, may be undermined by an unexpected development this week. It was announced that a little-known agency -- the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, headed by Scott J. Bloch -- has launched an investigation into possible illegal White House political participation in the firing of at least one U.S. attorney. The irony here was not noted in early news accounts.

And to ALL of that I add the latest news that a grant of immunity is in the offing for Gonzales' key aide, Monica Goodling, and you get a picture of things getting ready to possibly go wrong for Gonzales -- and provide embarrassing fodder for the Democrats to use against Bush.

Let the nudging begin.

Update 3:40 p.m.: Sen. John McCain joins call for Gonzales' nudge. Is the REAL McCain re-emerging?

And before Liberals start "ha-ha"ing Republicans, they may consider taking a look at Sen. Harry Reid, Democrats' Gonzales.

And, the crescendo builds.