Typically Blindly Stubborn mutherfucker * Changes Mind! Breaking:

[elehhhhna]

Now he'll only fire a traitor if that traitor's been...what? ...fricken convicted and executed ?

[mondo joe]

1. The MSM had better bring up his earlier promise to fire whoever LEAKED

-- not whoever is CONVICTED.

[rodeodance]

2. msnbc just said that Dems have said that "Bush lowered the ethical

standard' today. so, on the tube they have brought it up.

[wicket]

5. The NY Times is on it:

In Shift, Bush Says He'll Fire Aides Who 'Committed a Crime'

President Bush changed his stance today on his close adviser Karl Rove, stopping well short of promising that anyone in his administration who helped to unmask a C.I.A. officer would be fired.

C.I.A. Inquiry May Hinge on What the Leaker Knew (July 18, 2005) "If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration," Mr. Bush said in response to a question, after declaring, "I don't know all the facts; I want to know all the facts."

For months, Mr. Bush and his spokesmen have said that anyone involved in the disclosure of the C.I.A. officer's identity would be dismissed. The president's apparent raising of the bar for dismissal today, to specific criminal conduct, comes amid mounting evidence that, at the very least, Mr. Rove provided backhanded confirmation of the C.I.A. officer's identity.

In the months after the name of the officer, Valerie Plame Wilson, was made public in July 2003, the White House said repeatedly that no one working for the administration was part of the disclosure.

[Crankie Avalon]

3. He's showing his commitment to EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity)...

...by not discriminating against the treasonous. :patriot:

[booksenkatz]

4. And only if that traitor wears green pants.

On Tuesdays.
Knowingly.

'n stuff.

[NYCGirl]

6. From the NY Times:

http://nytimes.com/2005/07/18/politics/18cnd-rove.html?ei=5094&en=2663df379f95d150&hp=&ex=1121745600&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1121705828-QgkM3lE8A56NV5Nmgq/53Q

[eleny]

7. A Flip-Flop!

Flip-FlopperFlip-FlopperFlip-FlopperFlip-FlopperFlip-Flopper!

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. Gee, imagine that...

Bush flip-flopping... What a piss-poor excuse for a president. x(

[louis-t]

9. Only if he gets convicted, serves more than 399 days in a MAXIMUM security

prison in a state that has more than 72" annual rainfall and only if he can hop up and down on one foot and juggle some oranges while singing the "Catalina Magdalena Lieptenstien" song. Phew!

[Inland]

11. And he has to be convicted in a month beginning with "J". nt

[louis-t]

12. and ending with an 'R'.

[Inland]

10. Don't forget: there'll be appeals to exhaust after conviction

And it would be SO unfair to revoke his security clearance while appeals are pending.