Ding, dong, the witch is dead!

Well, politically speaking, anyway. Attorney General and Wicked Witch of the Justice Department John Ashcroft has submitted his letter of resignation to the White House, and the president has accepted it.

Presumably there is no one scarier that Bush could push through the confirmation process then Ashcroft, although I've been surprised before.

God willing, whoever puts on the former AG's ruby slippers will conjure up a better America and not the martial state Ashcroft set us on the road toward.