I hope Fitz is as tough and dogged as everybody says.......

[Wetzelbill]

He's already getting attacked. Sensenbrenner and all those guys are just shitheels. Really low people. I hope Fitz has it in him. He seems like a pretty tough and stand up guy, but, he's going to be getting ripped for political reasons until this thing is over. I think he can take it. I hope so.

This is for the sake of our country. It isn't just Karl Rove or GWB or Dick Cheney. It isn't about Joe Wilson or Valerie Plame. As much as I dislike Rove, Bush and Cheney and as much as I admire Wilson and Plame, it is a bigger issue. It's about National Security. It's about morality, the differences in between right and wrong. It's about the great American myth. What we are supposed to be, supposed to stand for.

If the Clinton administration, or a Gore or Kerry one for that matter, had committed a crime like this. I would not defend it. Outing a CIA agent as retribution for an op-ed her husband wrote, which refuted claims that led to a war, is about as low as it gets. It is something only a true coward would do. That's playing politics with a national security asset and her contacts. Not only that, in attacking a legitimate critic you are calling into question, just exactly why have 1,800 Americans and 10s of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives. What are the reasons? Why did it happen? Are there more lies or, at the very least, more blind ideological mistakes.

Because right now, an objective observer - and I try to be - has to think, either this administration is totally inept, or they are all stone cold liars. My bias leds me to lean towards the latter, but either way, it is not a good feeling knowing that your leaders, the leaders of the Free World, are one or the other. It sits badly with me.

But there is no doubt that they are mean and vindictive. Whether or not Fitz can go beyond all of that is anybody's guess right now. He definitely is on to something though.

I hope that whatever it is, he has the strength to get to the bottom of it.

Because justice needs to be served.

The sake and honor of our country requires it.

[skids]

1. I hope he has good timing.

The one problem I can see is that he's so dedicated to being a prosecutor's prosecutor that he will make a bad choice in timing the indictments. I hope he realizes that wheels are in motion to shut him down, and he won't get his convictions if he waits too long in his quest to build a thorough case.

[Wetzelbill]

3. good point

it's a fine line, he can't go too fast or wait too long.

[jimshoes]

2. These neo-cons

have made criminality into something chic. Somehow we must get back to putting criminals in jail. I really believe they sell their souls when they swear loyalty to their party above all.

[annabanana]

4. I hope he is "tough, and dogged", AND

* * * * CAREFUL * * * *

so much is riding on his shoulders...

[NativeTexan]

5. Fitzpatrick

You can sure bet that if he is as tough as everyone thinks he is, the Republican's will replace him faster that you can say "Fisher Out-Starr In"!!

http://truthfromtheamericanmiddle.blogspot.com/

[Wetzelbill]

6. Oh I hope not.....

i'd like to see him stay on for the long haul.

I think you made a typo. It's "Fitzgerald." I almost do that all the time. His first name is Patrick and that makes it even more confusing. :)

[NativeTexan]

7. nope

Fisher was the original independent REPUBLICAN counsel during the Clinton smear. When he said he had done a thorough job, and couldn't find anything, three REPUBLICAN Senators went to a REPUBLICAN appeals court and had him PULLED and replaced with KEN STARR...

[Just Me]

9. The whole Republican party would sink if that's allowed.

I think it's foolish to believe that the entire party will protect these treasonous bastards. Setting aside their interest in maintaining their influence as "Republicans",...I believe you are mistaken in believing that those in the Republican party would sell out their nation for these BushCO/neoCON bastards.

Only the weakest of the Republican regime would sell out their country.

[NativeTexan]

10. Well....

Damn I sure hope you are RIGHT!!

Nothing would please me more....I just keep looking at Bill Frist versus Howard Baker back then.....and just how contemptuous and hatefilled the Republican Party has become in the last 10 years.

So far, they all walk in locked goose-step behind their gearless leader!!

[dogday]

8. This will backfire on the republicans

it will look like supression of information at it's worst.....

[NativeTexan]

11. yeah

You better believe it. But I am still afraid that they will stoop to any level to make it look like Bill Clinton, not Karl Rove, is the leak....hell, they blame everything ELSE on him!

These guys are never to blame for ANYTHING....in their eyes!!