GOPers are effing scared!!!

[cynatnite]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050714/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_investigation

snip:
The GOP officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid looking disloyal, said the president may face a credibility problem because his spokesman said in September that anybody involved in the leak would be fired.

snip:
A survey of Republicans outside Washington revealed similar concerns, though few officials were willing to go on record.

"I think he should resign," said Jim Holt, a GOP state senator from Arkansas who is running for lieutenant governor. He joked, "I hope Karl Rove doesn't come gunning for me."

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"I have not heard a person bring it up in Michigan," said GOP consultant John Truscott of Lansing, Mich. "It's just not an issue out here."

Holt, the lieutenant governor candidate in Arkansas, said he was assigned to the National Security Agency while serving in the Army from 1989 to 1996. "If I were an operative, I sure wouldn't want anybody to reveal my identity," he said.

snip:
Rove's allies defend the White House's original denial by saying that Rove never mentioned Wilson's wife by name, a distinction that Holt said made no difference. "Is almost like saying it depends on what the definition of `is' is," he said, referring to former President Clinton's defense in the Monica Lewinsky case.

:rofl:

[FreedomAngel82]

1. I love a good eating

:popcorn:

[amber dog democrat]

2. Yup yup , whisteling past the graveyard.

an' hoping it will go away.

So much for momemtum with the Chimp's domestic agenda. This makes the Chimp adminstration look embattled and enept. It HAS to be both a growing embarrassment and a huge distraction. I love reading the transcripts of Scotty-mouth being handed his head by the liberul media.

[Catherine Vincent]

3. You know I would love to have a private dinner with Clinton and

get his opinion on all of this.

[lonestarnot]

4. Snort ... tail in air!

:rofl:

[wli]

5. Republican war crimes

Every "elected" official (and there's enough election fraud to indict large numbers of them on domestic criminal charges) in the Republican party should be rendered to the Hague to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

These cryptofascists have conspired to commit genocide and numerous acts of torture against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and less importantly, defrauding the American people. Not a single one of these things can be allowed to stand unchallenged by courts of international law. The neocon cryptofascists have attempted to frame their ideology in Manichaean terms, but it's we who are faced with the dichotomy between good and evil, and that means sane, normal, representative governance (good) vs. racist sexist homophobic Islamophobic Christian fundamentalist fascism (evil).

[JDPriestly]

6. Regardless of what happens to Rove

guilty or not guilty, the obstruction this scandal places in the way of Bush's agenda is a gift from God. Bush's appointment 2000, 9/11 and Bush's "election" in 2004 caused me to question the existence of God. The scandals around Rove and the Bush administration have restored some of my faith. Maybe God is just after all.

Still, I expect that Tenet and Colin Powell will be the scapegoats in this matter. Rove is in deep trouble, but he will make a deal with the prosecutor (with Bush's blessing -- Anything to save his political brain). That is my take. Rove is probably negotiating a deal right now, and that is why the White House is being so secretive and slow to answer questions. Rove will spill all the beans and lay the blame on Tenet and Colin Powell. Of course, Republicans will pay a tremendous political price for doing that because Colin Powell is viewed as a moderate and is probably more popular than the president today. I liked Colin Powell before he made his Iraq speech to the UN in January 2003, but I no longer trust him. May he and all others who compromise, lie and cheat to gain the favor of the powerful, wealth and fame get what they deserve.

[cynatnite]

7. You think they'd take a willing fall like that?

It seems a bit risky to me. Those two guys have huge political secrets to tell, I'd bet. They could probably blow the doors off the WH with all they know.

[deacon]

8. Showing their INSANITY-- rove was king of partisan attacks

which this isn't- this is about find out who the traitors are.

[radfringe]

9. condition of anonymity to avoid looking disloyal

it's one of the side effects from drinking the kool-aid and going into a rubber-stamp stupor

[H2O Man]

10. We have an opportunity

to separate the Bush administration from the mainstream republicans. The average moderate republican will not support covering up the Plame scandal, any more than they thought Nixon was doing the right thing. A key is for DUers to keep the focus on the fact that the White House exposed a person who was involved in protecting the citizens of the United States.