White House photo by Chris Greenberg President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush sit with U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his wife, Rebecca, during a visit Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007, at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas. Well, you can't say it's been a boring summer here in Our Nation's Capital, mes amis . New York may be empty while tout le monde vacays in the Hamptons, and the population of D.C. maybe reduced to the people who actually live here, but the White House keeps churnin' out the hits: the Libby pardon, the Rove resignation and, now, Fredo 's farewell. Over at his dashing, redesigned blog, the Media Consortium's Brian Beutler examines the irrelevance of the label "Washington insider" when assessing a bureaucrat's virtues. Alberto Gonzales , of course, was a Washington outsider, but too much of a parent-pleasing, White House insider to do his job properly. Your blogstress, however, cautions her devotees not to fall for ye...
