Rove watch

As Daniel Schorr reminds us, this story is not about a "leak," but about a war and how we were misled into that war. The GOP is trying to reframe the discussion toward a simple and Washington-tradition leak.

Couple of points on Rove. If you watch him talk (last year) about the leak and what he did and didn't say--and you hated Bill Clinton for his parsing of the word "is"--you have to agree he is a slimy and evil man. He is not about anything but power. As other bloggers have noted, he has demonstrated that his primary loyalty is not to America. If it was, he would not have chosen to out a CIA operative working on WMD proliferation for Christ's sake!

This is a guy who spread a rumor in a local race that a good judge with a record of accomplishing great things for local youth was really a pedophile. This guy is scum.

Now the question is what kind of integrity the President has. Will he actually fire someone who undermined National Security? I was about to make a joke about Condi Rice, but whatever she did or did not do about terrorism does not appear to be motivated by simple political ambition. Rove outed a CIA operative in a way that would make a mob boss blush. He did it to shut up a political critic.

Where is the outrage from the right? Remember that feeling of frustration over the White House Travel Office? What about the Buddhist Temple? Can't you mister any outrage over a political operative who would do this? Or is power your only goal. Or is the fact that Bush says God chose him enough, and now whatever means his office takes are all justified?

Rove must go. and I am still waiting for the grownups.