According to [link|#|the Trib] it is a distinct (with the emphasis on "stink") possibility.

The White House still offered support for Gonzales on Monday, but spokesman Tony Snow said he didn't know whether the embattled attorney general had contained the political damage. Snow said the White House hopes Gonzales will stay.

Inevitably, speculation turned to who might succeed him. Possible candidates include White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former Solicitor General Ted Olson, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein, federal appeals judge Laurence Silberman and PepsiCo attorney Larry Thompson, who was the government's highest ranking black law enforcement official when he was deputy attorney general during Bush's first term.

K3wl. Cronyism: 35, Qualifications: 3

Where is Ashton's countdown clock?