Froomkin: Will the Stonewall Work?

[maddezmom]

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, July 12, 2005; 12:48 PM

The Valerie Plame story has finally and undeniably hit the big-time -- with White House chief political strategist Karl Rove now a central figure, press secretary Scott McClellan's stonewalling recalling the darkest moments of previous administrations, and Democrats calling for blood.

Washington scandals sometimes flame out pretty fast. But signs thus far suggest that the White House's say-nothing strategy is only feeding the conflagration, rather than starving it.


Mike Allen and Dan Balz write in The Washington Post: "President Bush's aides put up a wall yesterday when questioned about revelations that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove had discussed the role of CIA official Valerie Plame with a reporter despite past White House assertions that he was not involved in her unmasking. . . .

"Democrats, emboldened by having the White House on the defensive, began a campaign to pressure Rove to give up his security clearances, answer questions before Congress and even resign.

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[ClintonTyree]

1. It's always worked for them before............

just evade, evade, evade. However, this time fat face KKKarl went a little too far. His cloak of invisibility has a tear in it and the Teflon coating on the bush White House has worn greatly. They won't be able to weasel out of this one.
For one thing, one of the Media's own is in jail protecting this miscreant. The Media will not back off this one, they've been injured too badly by this. It's a damned shame that this is what it took to shake them from their slumber. They've had countless chances to pick away at the force-field around the White House, but were cowed into aiding and abetting these petty thugs for 5 years all because they didn't want to appear "unpatriotic", I guess. They've let bush slide on everything, from WMDs to Gannongate without so much as a little shove in bush's direction.
Now, one of their own is wounded and they want their pound of flesh. Judging from the press conferences from the past few days, they'll get it. The bush cabal has pissed them off (finally).
This is NOT going away. bushCo. can stall and stonewall all they want, but until someone is made to pay for the Press Corps perceived injury, there will be no silencing them.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

2. Teflon

Reading the note about teflon put me in mind of something that was first mentioned about the original teflon president.

Nothing sticks to teflon, everything rolls off, but if you break the teflon coating, it turns poisonous.

Now we'll see.