"Court Nominee Lets Rove Hide in Back Pages"

[GreenPartyVoter]

Barring disclosure that he is a closet transvestite with a penchant for setting fire to nursing homes, John Roberts appears certain to be confirmed as an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. But even if he should fail, he will still have performed yeoman service for the Cheney/Bush administration.

By agreeing to have his name put forward to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the high court, Roberts enabled the embattled Karl Rove to escape from our television news programs and the front pages -- and inside pages for that matter -- of our daily newspapers.

If you think the timing of the announcement of Roberts' selection wasn't a carefully planned distraction, try to recall the last time a president demanded and got prime television time to make an announcement that ordinarily would have been a 10-minute turn in the Rose Garden, weather permitting.

Six administrations ago, condescending Democrats used to joke that Gerald Ford couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time. Someone in this White House, perhaps Rove himself, knew the same was true of the White House press corps: It is incapable of dealing with more than one major story at a time.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0727-27.htm

[xilet]

1. Side thought.

Haven't the repukes been claimoring about all of the "activist" politcal judges in the past couple of years? Yay more hypo-christianity.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Welcome to DU. The repubs would never see it as hypocrisy... they

never get it

[damntexdem]

3. Actually, I still see Rove on the front pages, even in conservative Texas.

In fact, the focus on Rove seems to be increasing. And some of the media have even commented on both (1) Roberts nomination timed to knock Rove off of front pages, and (2) it didn't work. Now, will it work over time, as Spector pushes hearings and votes? Maybe. But remember that there is a special prosecutor involved, and that indictments may be forthcoming. That has given Traitorgate media legs tha every other Bushista scandal story has lacked to date. And Dubya's refusal to release Roberts' tax returns may get play as WH stonewalling, which could further remind the populace of WH stonewalling on Rove. Is it even possible that Roberts will get tarred with the Rovian brush?