I think that Rove thinks he can ride out this scandal

[AlCzervik]

like so many scandals before with this administration. I think Rove is wrong, i think conventional wisdom does not apply in this case and i think Rove will pay for his treachery. It may not be today, tomorrow or next week but i truly think he is damaged goods and he will not be able to slither out of this one or blame the democrats as he's done so many times throughout his long carreer of assholery and ruining other people's lives. Time to pay the fiddler Karl.

[bushisanidiot]

1. Rove could shoot Hillary Clinton on live t.v. and there would be no

scandal. he'd claim it was a pre-emptive attack and there would be no investigation.

as long as the repukes control the white house, the senate and congress, there will never be an investigation of a repuke.

[lancdem]

4. Not by Congress

but Patrick Fitzgerald is independent of Congress.

[shraby]

2. Think of all the things they've stonewalled

and refused to answer about..DSM, Bolton, torture policy, and on and on. It has always worked for them before, stonewall and let the storm pass then go on as if nothing happened.
Won't work this time. The press is pushing and there is Fitzgerald in the background making his case.

[AlCzervik]

3. yes and i think the fact a special prosecuter is involved this time

does make this one different.

[peace frog]

5. Even if Rove is indicted and convicted

Junior will pardon him. As with all BushCo failures, Rove will not be held accountable for his crimes.

[gratuitous]

8. I was considering the notion of a pardon

Rove doesn't have to be tried or convicted of anything -- remember Ford pardoning Nixon? But I was thinking about this just a short time ago. What if Bush issues a pardon for all actions Rove did or may have done before the investigation can proceed any further? There's nothing to stop Bush from doing that, and you can probably guess the line of spin that will ensue: Bush is just saving the American people a lot of unnecessary trouble and expense. Rove isn't guilty of anything, and ending the prosecution/persecution of Rove frees Fitzgerald to concentrate on the real criminals in this matter.

The power of pardon is absolute and unreviewable, and would comport with the whole "screw you" attitude of this corrupt administration.

[peace frog]

9. And Bush's whole attitude towards Americans,

towards Congress, towards the entire world is one big "fuck you" if you are not with them. Yes, I fully expect him to pardon Rove, Cheney, Libbey and anyone else in his admininstration who may be accused of wrongdoing.

[Flying Dream Blues]

10. oh, but surely you mean, AFTER he FIRES them.

:sarcasm:

[peace frog]

11. LOL

Riiiiiiiiight.

[Double T]

6. Finally, the main stream media smells blood and they are not letting up...

I hope it continues as this will be the force that finally exposes the truth.

[understandinglife]

7. And so did Mitchell, and Ehrlichman, and Haldeman and Colson, ...

.... I watched it all, in DC, quite close to the action.

Even Nixon, until that fateful August 1974 cabinet meeting (in which Kissinger, among others, did not think he should resign), thought he'd skate.

He didn't. They didn't. Neither will Rove - and a bunch others.

p.s. It's an interesting irony that Bu$h's daddy was the first to call on Nixon to resign in that cabinet meeting. I imagine daddy Bush and Baker, among others, have been making some calls in the past few days.

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Peace.

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