I give you Pensito Review on the subject. Evidently they are thinking of replacing Abu Gonzo with Ted Olsen, the guy who led the Arkansas project, the most partisan political project this side of SwiftBoating.

Now there is word that Republican officials in D.C. are seriously proposing Ted Olson to replace Gonzo. Digby asks, “Is this some kind of a joke?”

Knowing Ted Olson’s history, the answer is sadly no.

During the 1990s, the GOP ran a stealth disinformation campaign against the Clintons, the prototype for Swiftboating, out of the offices of the American Spectator, a rightwing magazine. Internally, the operation was called the Arkansas Project, but Hillary famously referred to it as a “vast rightwing conspiracy.” It was funded by Richard Mellon Scaife and its CEO was Ted Olson.

At the same time, Olson’s wife, Barbara, was one of a cadre of wingnut blondes — the others were Ann Coulter, Kellyann Fitzpatrick and Laura Ingraham — who were given untold hours of face time on cable news to bash the Clintons with rumors and innuendos, much of which was processed through the Arkansas Project. Barbara, the author of a bizarrely nasty screed titled “Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton,” died on the plane that hit the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

Pensito refers to Digby, who gives a whole bunch of commentary here, commentary that it is not necessary to add to, except to say that it appears that the Bush White House thinks that Abu isn’t partisan enough. Evidently they’ve heard nothing about the American people’s reaction to Abu’s managing of the AG office.