Rove story is about to go away

[Walt Starr]

Yep, it's going away and the press will be focusing on other issues, mostly a SCOTUS nomination.

But do not fear. Only one man can make it go totally away, PAtrick Fitzgerald.

The beauty is, when it comes back it will do so with a vengence because it will be when indictments are unsealed.

Keep the faith, DUers, and let this story go away. The impact of the indictments will be all the more horrendous for Bushco and all the more sweeter for us when the story comes back.

:evilgrin:

[Robbien]

1. Don't just passively keep the faith. Keep on writing

As long as papers keep getting LTTEs on Rove/Plame, they will be interested in the story.

[liberal N proud]

2. Although it will be pushed to the back pages, we must keep

vigil and not let it slip out of the news entirely.
We must keep the pressure on these criminals and bring them to justice.

[Maddy McCall]

3. Nope. Not as long as Miller's in jail it won't.

The press is pissed. It's not going away this easily.

[Ganja Ninja]

14. Poor Judith, her only hope is that the media will not forget her.

:boring: :rofl:

[magnolia]

20. Poor Judith...

...should stop protecting the guilty.

[Vinca]

4. I suspect the SCOTUS nominee will be VERY controversial.

It'll be 2 birds with 1 stone: satisfy the fundies, take the doughboy off the front pages.

[highnooner]

6. This will come back when indictments

are handed down. Don't worry. It will escalate.

[sellitman]

9. I heard that on the radio yesterday.....I agree!

junior will pick a hard right appointee.

[liveoaktx]

5. IF it does, it leaves on a bad note for Bush since he lowered his standard

very publicly, showing that he embraces questionable behavior and security breaches in his cabinet.

[Just Me]

7. I hope Fitzgerald surprises me,...

,...and begins issuing indictments before September. The sooner the better ya' know. This administration is seriously getting out of hand, sending out global death squads and making military preparations to expand the war in the M.E. in addition to expanding domestic surveillance. It's getting pretty perilous.

[bluestateguy]

8. Perhaps

It will be up to the bloggers to keep the story alive. They have that power if they press it.

I'm starting to think that a major reason for Bush scandals "going away" as you put it, is because the media gets bored with the stories after kicking them around for a few days. When you don't have a Congress controlled by the other party there is less momentum pushing the stories, and hence no official investigation going on, and no steady flow of juicy new information for the media to chew on. So they get bored and move on. Yes, they should be doing much of that investigating themselves, but investigative journalism just isn't what it used to be in this country.

Here you have a case where an official investigation is going on, so the story will probably come and go and come and go again. We'll go through periods where it vanishes from the headlines, like through much of last year, and periods where it will be high up in the headlines, like right now. In the interim, it will be up to the bloggers to not let the story die.

[wurzel]

10. Did you see Charlie Rose last night? This story is serious.

[converted_democrat]

11. Last night on Leno, McCain claimed Bush would pick Fred Thompson.

He said it fits the pattern because he asked Thompson to "help" him pick a nominee, and that's what Bush did with Cheney before he picked him for V.P... I'm praying it does not come to that because I think he would actually get in. People "like" him because of his role in Law & Order, but his personal politics suck.

[mopaul]

12. an over rated actor for SCOTUS? sure, why not.

[converted_democrat]

15. I don't agree with it, but it's what McCain said........

The worst of it was when McCain said it, the people in Leno's audience cheered like crazy. That's the part that is bothering me. I assure you none of those people would have been cheering for him, if they knew his personal politics. He's about as far right as you can get.

[bluestateguy]

13. Any Senator or ex-Senator is a slam dunk confirmation

With the possible exception of John Ashcroft, who burned his bridges as AG, but I don't think he will get the tap anyway.

There is a lot of pressure in the Senate to defer to colleagues for judicial or executive branch nominations. Senatorial courtesy. For senators like Bobby Byrd, who has been there for almost 50 years, these kinds of principles are taken very seriously.

[auburngrad82]

16. It was the lead story on NPR this morning.

along with the comments that Bush "raised the bar" by stating he would fire anyone "convicted of a crime" rather than his previous statement that he would fire anyone "involved in the leak".

[hexola]

17. Biden said something on IMUS...

He said he was going on vacation in the first 2 weeks of August and would come back for the SCOTUS deal...it was sort of a slip...not sure if he was telegraphing something he knew...

So maybe its a still a month away...

Maybe the anticipation is distraction enough.

[ecstatic]

18. we're always putting all of our faith into one person

who always ends up letting us down.

[Walt Starr]

19. Fitzgerald will indict. I guarantee it

73 indictments and 73 convictions in the Illinois Licenses for Bribes scandal.

He just indicted two more Daley cronies in Chicago.

He'll indict here. Fitzgerald moves on a case when it's time to move. Putting Miller in jail demonstrates there is something here and people will be indicted.

[Dawgs]

21. Disagree...

All bad news, all the time for Bush and Company. It certainly didn't hurt the right to keep the Clinton bashing alive.

Remember, the media hasn't been on our side for years. I would rather not lose the momentum.