Bush Stands By His Turd: Rove Blames Journos

Here's Scott McLellan on board Air Force One today:

Q: Does the President believe it's appropriate for the RNC to continue to weigh in on this matter? They put out another memo today, with a top-10 Joseph Wilson lies. If indeed it's an ongoing investigation and it's improper for the White House to discuss it, does he think it's proper for the Republican Party to weigh in on it?

MR. McCLELLAN: You know, Geoff, I appreciate the question, and as you heard me say yesterday, we are not going to prejudge the outcome of the investigation...

Yadda, yadda, yadda... Four (or is it five?) days running. Rove was aboard the same AF1 flight but stayed 1 million miles from reporters:

Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff, accompanied the president on a trip to Indianapolis -- both men walking together from the White House to the Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn. Bush usually walks alone to the helicopter, and their public stroll was widely perceived as a presidential show of support.

And is this a real picture? Are protestors really gathering around the White House...?

And did you hear that 33 GOP Senators actually voted to support a blatantly partisan motion by Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), designed purely to stifle further democratic debate on the Rove case (at the cost of further erosion of your civil liberties)?

It seems the GOP has got "Democrats" confused with "democracy" - you don't have to be against BOTH of them! All 33 GOP Senators should be removed, one by one. And they will be! (anybody got a list, please send it to me...)

As one Republican Senator said:

"This is exactly why the American public holds Congress is such low esteem."

Damn right, lady.

Another GOP Senator declared: "I think he should resign." The Senator then joked nervously: "I hope Karl Rove doesn't come gunning for me."

Meanwhile (from the same report) "a survey of more than a dozen Republicans who live outside Washington found most siding with the White House." What? More than a dozen??? Gosh, what a representative sample!

I gotta tell you, when you go and look at a page like this today, you realise there is still some hope for the USA.

But meanwhile, civil war in Iraq is looking more and more inevitable. Remember when everybody was saying, "We can't pull out now or Iraq will plunge into civil war"?

BREAKING NEWS: Karl Rove apparently told the grand jury that he learned the identity of a CIA operative originally from journalists.

The person, who works in the legal profession and spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of grand jury proceedings, told The Associated Press that Rove testified last year that he remembers specifically being told by columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame, the wife of a harsh Iraq war critic, worked for the CIA.

Is this an attempt to throw the spotlight back onto Novak, or even Miller?If it's true, it sound more like a plea bargain that a concerted defence. I mean, even if a journo told Rove about Mrs Wilson's identity, he still leaked it to journalists... and remember, others in the White Houser were involved!