"focused on the need to install real checks and balances" Herein is the rub. The Dems have yet to show they can check or balance anything. Mr. Rockerfeller's rollover on the Roberts move to postpone, yet again, the intel investagation is another example of this. I am a democrat, have voted democrat all my life but really beleive this country would be better served by clean ing Washington of members of both parties.
Posted by Curt Jopling at April 27, 2006 08:03 AMObviously this is all heading one place....
...Joe Wilson is about to be indicted!!!!
But seriously, Rove has lost weight hasn't he?
Much as I would enjoy seeing the bottom-feeder indicted I'm inclined to think Fitzgerald feels it might be a stretch to get a conviction with what he's got. But who knows the totality of what he's got? So I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I imagine that Fitzgerald will be making a decision about Rove in the not too near future. He's working pretty much full time on the Plame case now.
Posted by Ga6thDem at April 27, 2006 08:25 AMI have no idea what P. Fitzy is up to...but I'd feel real shitty if I had appeared before his grand jury five times...especially if I was an extremist partisan, law-filching hack lying to a nonpartisan law-and-order prosecutor.
That might, were I said law-filching partisan hack, give me cause for concern.
Posted by God Of War at April 27, 2006 08:27 AMAn indictment 30 days before the midterms would be disasterous for the already sickened GOP-controlled Congress.
Fingers, eyes and legs are crossed. Have I left anything out???
Posted by Christopher at April 27, 2006 08:32 AMFitz will not be making an indict/not decision about Rove in the near future. He is investigating a consiracy and the best way to move the total case forward is to keep Rove's status ambiguous. This keeps Rove pliant and yeilding of more clues as to the total conspiracy. Fitz is very experienced in RICO prosecutions and knows that his job is to hold the kingpins accountable. Fitz won't let Rove walk, but his goal is DECAPITATION of the cabal.
Posted by John Forde at April 27, 2006 09:45 AMVandeHei has been Luskin's most faithful transmission belt, and one has to look well beyond the spin to see that the Rovester better be wearing his Wellies, as he is getting deeper and deeper into shit as Fitz moves along.
Posted by barrisj at April 27, 2006 10:17 AMas someone pointed out yesterday, you don't have to keep going back time and time again to "clarify" if you told the full truth the first time. Rove is a crook and a liar - that's not a mystery. Fitz can smell liars.
Posted by T2 at April 27, 2006 10:23 AMIt's a total mystery Snark... Who knows exactly what Fitzgerald is up to.
If I was the Attorney General... I would have put an end to the whole ordeal as soon as Fitzgerald stated (and the judge agreed) that the actual leaker would not be prosecuted.
Posted by CH Truth at April 27, 2006 11:39 AMIf I was the Attorney General...
Thank God for small mercies!
Posted by snark at April 27, 2006 11:55 AMVandeHei has been Luskin's most faithful transmission belt
A position he battles Mike Isikoff for. Both have tons of competition in the MSM. VandeHei's entire article from this morning is straight from Luskin's mouth.
Christy Smith issued the following crucial reminder this morning:
It bears repeating over and over that every piece of information we are hearing (with the exception of some of Murray Waas’ pieces, which have that ring of "not from Luskin" to them) are all coming from the Libby, Rove and/or their cronies spin meister machinery.
She's absolutely correct. Virtually every single piece of information passed on by the MSM about the Plame investigation comes from either the Rove or Libby camps.
Posted by KM at April 27, 2006 12:39 PMI should add that this --
Rove's testimony focused almost exclusively on his conversation about Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in 2003 and whether the top aide later tried to conceal it, the source said.
--, IMO, is pure poppycock. Viveca Novak ain't the only relevant new evidence that has arisen since Rove's last appearance. I'm willing to bet that Rove spent a heckuva lot of time, among other things, being grilled about matters related to evidence-tampering, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct.
Posted by KM at April 27, 2006 01:05 PMIf I was the Attorney General...
Someone like Ken Starr would be hired to do a complete whitewash.
Posted by herbal tee at April 27, 2006 01:38 PMI just learned Rove will return tomorrow for a 6th appearance before Patrick Fitzgerald's Grand Jury.
Legal experts say if he issues an indictment, it is likely to be then.
Posted by Christopher at April 27, 2006 02:17 PMIf I was the Attorney General... I would have put an end to the whole ordeal as soon as Fitzgerald stated (and the judge agreed) that the actual leaker would not be prosecuted..... because of people like Mr. Libby who obstructed justice, lied to investigators and the grand jury, and to use Mr. Fitzgerald's metaphor, threw sand into the umpires eyes.
Posted by emal at April 27, 2006 02:28 PMon Raw Story:
Karl Rove has described his three and a half hour meeting with a grand jury as grueling, and is more worried about being prosecuted than ever, MSNBC is reporting.
RAW STORY has also learned that an MSNBC report tonight will reveal that one of Rove's lawyers said the presidential adviser described his fifth grand jury appearance as "hell."
Posted by ann at April 27, 2006 03:16 PMI would have put an end to the whole ordeal as soon as Fitzgerald stated (and the judge agreed) that the actual leaker would not be prosecuted.
Fortunately for the cause of freedom, the Attorney General was not you, it was that well-known liberal and Bush-hater, John Ashcroft.
Posted by Repack Rider at April 27, 2006 04:41 PM"would be for Fitzgerald to kneecap Rove at the end of July with an indictment, thereby crippling the White House’s fall campaign and giving the Democrats all the talking points they need during the recess to keep voters focused on the need to install real checks and balances against this corrupt regime."
They need this??? They have had so many "talking points" over the past five and a half years, yet never seem interested in using them. There must be a list of 500 Talking Points. Add this one to the list.
Posted by Judith at April 27, 2006 04:57 PMHere's video of Schuster's report on Countdown-pretty funny
Posted by COF at April 27, 2006 05:29 PM