The scandal doesn't implicate Bush--nothing does

[linazelle]

And that's why it's at least being floated.

Regressives can acknowledge some wrongdoing as long as it does not touch King/God Bush.

Rove is expendable. He's a pawn (well, maybe a knight)there to take heat off the King. Removing Rove will assign some accountability to the maladministration in general but Bush goes unscathed--save for lies about dealing with the leaker.

The only good thing is that the King will have less protection/insulation if Rove goes.

[Spinzonner]

1. It doesn't matter

He would be judged Mentally Incompetent to Stand Trial anyway.

[Wetzelbill]

2. I say that would get you 3 and a quarter stars

[madeline_con]

5. "Mentally Incompetent to Stand Trial"

true. :rofl:

[Selatius]

3. Bush is just a figurehead

The real powerbrokers are buried deep within the government. They have no accountability to the people. They are either appointed to their posts, or they act as consultants to those who do hold office. You probably don't even know most of their names, and they'd rather keep it that way.

I'm talking about the influence peddlers and the money-men and the apparatchiks, the ones who fuel the corporatist machinery that now owns most of the federal government. Bush will come and go, but the individuals I talk about are there for life or until they are defeated.

A politician, anyone who holds a seat of power in government, is just a puppet. You need to look at the puppetmasters.

[amber dog democrat]

8. This is true - and they have had a pretty good ride so far.

Getting much of what they wanted. I am beginning to wonder if the ones behind the scenes are collectivly over playing their hand by going for too much, too soon.

I suspect they will let their boy flame out and crash, while preparing a new PREZ-BOT to stand in. The real power lies far removed from the figure heads and strives to stay invisible, with loss of liberty and injustice for all. Its the nature of evil.

[amber dog democrat]

4. It does not help the Chimp either

The Chimp admin can spin this all they like, but its just a little more weight on the negative side of the balance. Some one did SOMEthing illeagal in the Chimp admin -
or at least this is what the Justice Dept is peering into.

at the very least its an unremovable tarnish, but the loss of momumtum and time over this further discredits and incapacitates the Chimp Admin's domestic agenda.

I kind of think of it as a decaying orbit.

[madeline_con]

6. "... a decaying orbit..."

Come on, comet!

[Ready2Snap]

7. It's all over the place but worth repeating

"Bush firing Rove is tantamount to Charley McCarthy firing Edgar Bergen"