Party over Country
Digby finds this piece of garbage from the boys at Powerline:
“The media feeding frenzy will, indeed, be massive. But absent a serious claim of a statutory violation or perjury, it’s questionable whether anyone apart from liberal bloggers and other pre-existing Bush haters will partake in the media’s dog food. This isn’t a top presidential aide accepting an expensive gift, or engaging in lewd sexual conduct. It’s a top aide providing truthful information to journalists in response to lies told to embarrass the administration and our government.”
Just to get it out of the way, the notion that Wilson was lying is utter and complete crap.
And lets look at what Rove actually did: he pushed, aggressively, the fact that Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent in an attempt to discredit Wilson. Even assuming that Wilson was wrong — which, I cannot stress enough, he was not(remember George Tenet demanded that the Niger reference be removed from the President’s speeches) — into the media. It is contemptible enough to attack a man’s family in order to prop up your own political fortune. But what Rove did was worse — he destroyed the cover and the operations of a women working on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Whether he did so intentionally or not is irrelevant. If he did not know Plame was an undercover agent, then he should have.
Nuclear weapons, since the boys at Powerline seem unclear on this point, are very bad things. They can kill a lot of people and make living around the target site unpleasant. Protecting the country from attack by these weapons is a wee bit more important than protecting any President from the honest consequences of his own deceptions. Rove made the country less safe than it should have been in order to prop up the approval ratings of a politician.
Anyone who would minimize that is more concerned with the safety of his political party than the safety of his country. And they should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
Karl rove has to go. Anything less sends the clear message that the Party is more important than the Country. Any President who believes that is unfit to hold the office — whether or Hindrocket and his menagerie of glass talking-point-parrots can understand the concept.
Bingo! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. I think you’ve got exactly why Rove needs to go, whether there’s an indictiment or not, whether there’s criminal charges or not. It’s the case of one man putting party over country, and indeed over the life and safety of a fellow American. He’s unfit for his position. Period.
Since El Shrubbo cannot find his asshole with both hands on his own, I cannot imagine that Der Rovesmarschall needs to worry too much about his position.
In the height of irony, they wreaked havoc on efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear WMDs, a real threat, in defense of a claim of nuclear WMDS, a bogus threat.
Anyone who thinks Rove will face serious consequences is incredibly naive. The worst case scenario for him is being forced to resign. The elite will always do what they can to protect each other.
If the American public demands his head on a silver platter and the media is relentless in their reporting, Bush will ge rid of him because of the embarassment.
Rove will then obtain a high position in another campaign or at some corporation and make millions of dollars. However, we should always remember that George H.W. Bush called outing a CIA agent, “a high act of treason.”
David Masciotra
http://soldierofthought.blogspot.com
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