For those upset with it being "only one indictment"...remember

[ScreamingMeemie]

Watergate started with only one person's testimony...and a whole lot of investigating over two years' time. This has only just begun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate


Watergate didn't tear down Nixon in one day....

[earth mom]

1. Thanks for your post!

It's encouraging and I feel a bit more hopeful. Even though I wanted to see ALL the criminals in the WH get indicted today-the sooner the better!!!-I still have a lot of faith in Fitz. I hope and pray that he can and will help to put them ALL behind bars where they belong!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. You and me both GR....We've put up with this corruption for so

long it makes me want to see them all go down at once, but I am satisfied with this. I have a feeling there are some people singing like birds right now. :hi:

[plcdude]

2. It is quite clear

to me from the press conference that "the fat lady has not sung yet". Fitzpatrick is merely saying that the GJ has indicted Libby on 5 charges and has expired. The investigation continues and whether there will be more indictments is not the purpose or the legal scope of his conference at this point. If there is sufficient evidence that would lead to other indictments then another grand jury will hear that evidence and act accordingly. The beginning of the end has begun for this administration. The integrity of this executive branch has suffered irreparable damage in the eyes of the public once again. There will be a public criminal hearing and possibly a civil hearing. It comes down to a game of chicken now. The special prosecutor and the * administration are on a collision course resulting in a head-on or the administration veering away and giving up other scapegoats. Time will tell but time is on the side of Fitzpatrick.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. That's how I felt too. The not being able to talk about Rove...When

he said his job is to figure out who, what, when, where and WHY. WHY is big. WHY would this man compromise the covert status of a CIA agent....WHY? I am putting my chips on the WHY bringing everyone down. :hi:

[skygazer]

4. You're absolutely right, Mrs. G

It's kind of like the "domino theory" they tried to rationalize Vietnam with. Only in this kind of thing, it tends to work, because the people left holding the bag panic and start naming names and then THOSE people start saying, "no, it was so-and-so..."

This is not the end - it's only the beginning.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. ...and that is exactly what I think is going on. I think there are a few

people singing their guts out in hopes of saving their butts. :hi:

[catmandu57]

6. Song for today

Chicago (hmm appropriate) Only the Beginning.

[Lorax]

7. Thanks for the reminder. n/t

[calimary]

9. So true, and thanks for reminding people here about this.

Furthermore, as I posted elsewhere (sorry to be repetitive), this may be an even better outcome, as far as rove is concerned, than if he just plain-n-simple had been indicted. At least if that had happened, there'd be no gnawing doubts, no dangling participles. That would have been it. The amputation would have been performed and that would have been that. THIS, on the other hand, with the investigation continuing, and the cloud still hanging over his head, is like the festering wound at the end of the toe being left to grow and metastasize, and spread via the bloodstream throughout the body. This does nothing to heal the infection. This does nothing to stanch the blood flow. This hasn't made the storm clouds clear away. Not at all. This is gonna STAY hanging over karl's head. He will continue to be distracted. The worst part is the not knowing, the suspense, the cliff-hanger that has you tied up all summer after the season-finale left you with only half the story and the lead characters hanging by their fingernails from the edge of the cliff.

This is exactly where we like karl to be: in limbo. Not knowing. Still having to defend. Still having to fight. Still having to try to out-think and out-maneuver. Still having his hands full with this when he'd MUCH rather get a clean bill of health to go back to savaging Democrats and promoting the son-of-Satan. Now, he can't. He's still stuck. And he WON'T be able to get much done, especially now that the press is on it, too. He'll WISH for the days when it was just a small gaggle of reporters waiting for him to climb into his jaguar and shine his brights into their camera lenses in the morning. He'll GRIEVE for the days when he could operate in the shadows and be the grand manipulator and schemer and ruiner of other people's lives. Now it's HIS life that stands to be ruined.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy (cue the dripping sarcasm and the violins, please).

FUCK YOU, karl. Enjoy the bed you made. You know the one - covered with shit and fleas and maggots and bacteria? You get to lie down in it now.