I’ve been pretty silent about all the resignation stuff all week because I was under a gag-order from the Fair Jessica (Note to new readers: TFJ is my bride (who I started wooing through the G-File) and she was an aide and speechwriter for the AG since before 9/11).

Anyway, Jessica’s pretty bad about keeping me in the loop about this sort of thing. During the early days after 9/11 she was really mum about all the cool stuff going on. The underground complexes, secret spy satellites, James Bond-like technology, the secret army of US-trained ninjas and all of the other stuff she refused to confirm or deny existed as I imagined them. But I did know a bit earlier than the press that Ashcroft was resigning. I’m probably going to write a syndicated column about the guy. But in short I really do think he did a heroic job as AG and that while he may never be the official spokesman for Club Med Cancun, he’s a decent man who did a hard job extremely well and got unfairly vilified for it by an entire political class more interested in scoring cheap points than in discussing the facts — or improving our security.

As for The Fair Jessica, I guess she’ll be out of work come January. I don’t want any of you mega-billionaire corporate CEOs or top-tier politicians, desperately in search of speechwriters or ghostwriters to worry about it. National Review pays us more than enough to keep our baby in burlap with enough left over for bus fare to the soup kitchen.