Why Scotty's Scared Speechless

[Sparkly]

Here's what I hope. For once, they can't give Scotty a script. For the first time, this administration isn't in control. They don't know what Fitzgerald has, or what he intends to do with it. So they're stalling for as long as they can.

If they admit anything, it could incriminate them further; if they deny anything, it might incriminate them further. So they're just treading water, waiting.

What surprises me is the notion of Fitzgerald pursuing a real investigation. Since he was put in place by Ashcroft's DoD, I had no faith in him to make a real effort, but maybe I'm wrong. And if he is actually going for prosecution, any number of things could be in play beyond outing Plame, from perjury to obstruction to conspiracy to defraud Congress, etc. We don't know, and it looks like they don't know.

But then other thoughts run through my mind. What about Tenet's resignation, and the Porter purge of the CIA? What about Cheney, and their need to replace him during this term with the next GOP candidate, someone who's a blank slate for Rove to construct the way he did Chimpy? What if Rove's not protecting Cheney, but Cheney's protecting Rove, ready to take the "fall" by simply resigning under clouds of "health reasons," making it go away and keeping Rove in place? (Or, couldn't Rove pull strings from behind bars anyway?)

We'll have to wait and see. The only clear thing is they're waiting for this investigation to end before saying anything further -- whether by their own design, or whether they're truly caught and waiting to see how tightly they're caught.

[Son of California]

1. yeah, I'm thinking this too

They are caught and they know it, so they can't say anything more for fear of being even more caught.

[Erika]

2. Scott has lost all credibility as a journalist

He rates with Hume, O'Reilly, and Hannity. He's a Bush pimp.

[rasputin1952]

4. Always has been...and the Press Corps is finally calling him on it...

about time.

The WH is really caught in a pinch...damned no matter what they do...:evilgrin:

[wake.up.america]

3. I predict Fitzi will drop the case

[The Traveler]

5. Here's the message ... plain and simple

Scotty's message is clear ... it is the message of cautious denial. Our message needs to be clear and direct. The Republican Party leadership has sold us out. They have sacrificed national security to further their quest for power. They have sacrificed the economic future of American children to line their pockets and the pockets of their friends with the taxpayer's money. They have adopted an energy policy crafted by the oil companies, for their benefit. They have passed legistlation to force drugs on our children, at the behest of the pharmaceuticals industry, and have implemented other legal tools fraught with potential for abuse by tyrants. Instead of bringing integrity back to the White House they have brought division, corruption, character assasination, treason, and the techniques of propaganda first established by Vladimir Lenin.

The true character of the Republican Party leadership has been revealed. It is past time for Democrats and Republicans of good will to clean house.

[satya]

8. Well said! nt

[stevedeshazer]

6. Stonewall Scotty knows there's a cancer on the presidency

And I don't think they can wait it out much longer.

Public opinion is at a tipping point here. Yes, I know it's been said, but I really believe it. I've seen this before.

I've never seen these guys circle the wagons this tightly in this way before.

I listened to some right-wing radical radio snippets today; Limbaugh, Hannity, and my local Republican sycophants ALL regurgitated some realted form of the same BS story; that Rove didn't do anything illegal; that Rove didn't name Plame, just "Joe Wilson's wife"; that V. Plame sent her husband to Niger to "get him out of the house because he didn't have anything else to do" and on and on and on.

It's true, we'll have to wait and see. Scandal after scandal, these guys emerge unscathed. But I think there's another shoe about ready to drop.

Just my gut feeling.

Anyone else?

[rumpel]

7. I think there will be this solemn sad day Rove resigns, and will be

assigned a desk in a secret location, from where he conducts business happily ever after in obscurity.

no. let's rewrite that!

and will be assigned a little desk overlooking the "playground" of the penitentiary, where he occasionally gets a glimpse of Bush & Cheney attempting to mountain bike.