The Note: "Where Does This Go?" (Rove)

[Wickerman]

Four things matter in the Karl Rove story now:

1. How much will Republicans (on the record or on background) turn on Rove and demand a fuller accounting? (See Dick Stevenson's tour de force New York Times story for some of that. . . LINK

2. The facts.

3. What prosecutor Fitzgerald decides to do.

4. What Chief Justice Rehnquist decides to do (maybe).

Yesterday, familiar Democrat names like "Reid" "Schumer" "Waxman," "Kerry," and "Lautenberg" called for investigations, a resignation, and/or the pulling of a security clearance. The story made network news and leads the Bill Keller Gazette.

Whatever else one thinks, these facts are not in dispute:

A. Rove's attorney has acknowledged that Rove talked about Valerie Plame with Matt Cooper, without mentioning her name, days before the Novak column appeared.

B. Rove (and Rove via McClellan) has repeatedly suggested that he had nothing to do with this story at all.

C. The White House has suggested that any person found to have anything to do with the improper leaking of Wilson's name to the press would be fired.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

I love the smell of fried Karl in the morning.

[Bumblebee]

1. You stopped too early!

Here is one of my favorite parts of the Note (esp. the "throwing up" line casually thrown in.):

It is interesting (wethinks) to Note how McClellan used the word "criminal" so often in the briefing yesterday (when he wasn't on the verge of throwing up) — as if to define the scope of what's appropriate, so when (assuming) Rove doesn't get indicted, Scott can say "the criminal investigation concluded he did nothing wrong, so there's nothing to talk about."

[Merlot]

2. A: But he did't use her name, just said "Wilsons wife"

Which begs the question: How many wives DOES Joe Wilson have????

[proud patriot]

3. smells good

:evilgrin: