Alberto Gonzales Backtracks On Torture

It'd be great to be privy to the Republicans' emails and phone calls.

Every time one of them say anything, whether it has to do with Rush Limbaugh, the terror alerts, or now, the torture probe, you can wait a day and hear them saying just the opposite.

Today it's Alberto Gonzales, who supported the CIA torture probe the other day. Now he's spun around and is against it. What happened in the meantime? We can only guess, but it possibly involves a severed horse head.

The other day it was Tom Ridge, who couldn't backpedal fast enough on whether the terrorist alerts were raised for political reasons in 2004. At first he said they were. Now he says they weren't.

Here's a clue for you all: They were.

But come back tomorrow and I'll say they weren't.