Blumenthal: Rove is a "subject" !!! McClellan is a flea.

[deminks]

Walking the White House Plank
By Sidney Blumenthal
The Guardian UK

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041906R.shtml

The resignation of the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, is an event of almost complete insignificance except insofar as the beleaguered White House presents it as an important change. Meanwhile, the secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, under siege from dissenting ex-generals demanding his firing for arrogant incompetence, stays.

McClellan is a flea on the windshield of history. On the podium, he performed his duty as a slow-flying object swatted by a frustrated and flustered press corps. Inexpressive, occasionally inarticulate and displaying a limited vocabulary, his virtue was his unwavering discipline in sticking to his uninformative talking points, fending off pesky reporters, and defending the president and all the president's men to the last full measure of his devotion. Inside the Bush White House, he was a non-player, a factotum, the instrument of Karl Rove, Bush's chief political strategist and deputy chief of staff. McClellan played no part in the inner councils of state. He was the blank wall erected in front of the press to obstruct them from seeing what was on the other side. McClellan's stoic façade was unmatched by a stoic interior. He was a vessel for his masters, did whatever he was told, put out disinformation without objection, and was willing to defend any travesty. He is the ultimate dispensable man.

For months, Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, has assured the press that his client, who was believed to be vulnerable to indictment for perjury, is in the clear. But Libby insisted that he was entitled to "disclosure of such documents" in Rove's files "even if Mr. Rove remains a subject of a continuing grand jury investigation".

Karl Rove is a subject of Fitzgerald's investigation - this is the headline buried in Libby's filing.

[aquart]

1. Sweet dreams are made of this.

Do I want Rove in a flaming orange jumpsuit, or something more tailored in hot pink?

[Dudley_DUright]

4. Personally, I prefer the more traditional vertical stripes

:evilgrin:

[Kagemusha]

2. "Flea on the windshield of history" is a nice line...

I'll treasure that thought. Jane Hamsher likes using the term "snark". That's snark. Blumenthal's always been good at it, and here he's just putting on a show for the rest of us.

[Justice Is Comin]

3. That's why mushmouth McClellan

is out. Because there is s-o-o-o much bad news coming that he has covered up for, he would be skewered like a shrimp at a Australian cookout trying to explain his way out of it.

They had to get him out before that news hits because he's up to his neck in it. Rove is also out for the same reason. He's being shoved closer to the curb because I expect the Fitz-meister to be back in front of the grand jury any time now.

This is like the black clouds and the quiet you hear before the hurricane. And brother, it's coming.