HuffPo: "We're inside the White House now."

[aquart]

Arianna:

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-injustice-at-justice_b_43232.html>

nd, as of this weekend, we're inside the White House now. In an interview with McClatchy Newspapers, Alan Weh, chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party, revealed that in 2005 he asked a White House staffer who worked for Karl Rove for help in getting rid of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, then followed up directly with Rove in 2006. Weh was unhappy that Iglesias refused to rush an investigation of Democratic officials in time for the '06 election.

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"He's gone." Unfortunately for Rove, so is Scooter Libby. "Cheney's Cheney" took the fall for "Bush's Brain" once already, but now that he's gone, who will be the one to fall on his sword for the president's beloved thug? Maybe Rove can give Libby a call and convince him to take the hit on this one too, with Bush offering up a pardon two-fer in January 2009.

As could be expected, Weh has already started to backpedal, telling the AP that "Rove has little or nothing to do with this."

It doesn't take one of Fox's hotshot fifth graders to figure out that someone got to Weh after the McClatchy story broke. Before his name surfaced in connection to the scandal, Rove was playing down its importance, saying at a speech in Arkansas: "My view is this is unfortunately a very big attempt by some in the Congress to make a political stink about it." But now that the Turd Blossom has hit the fan, it's the White House that is starting to reek.

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[luckyleftyme2]

1. its not over

this will be an on going saga!

[malaise]

2. The only question is

which night was this massacre?

[demnan]

3. It's usually Saturday night

n/t

[aquart]

4. That's what Josh Marshall pointed out:

How unusual it is for bad news to hit the fan like this on a Monday night. Kinda like BushCo isn't in control anymore. Which gives me this nice warm glow around my heart.