Why didn't Scooter resign yesterday??? It would have been the honorable

[joeybee12]

thing to do.

My understanding is that it has been 135 years since a member of the White House staff has been criminally indicted. Someone said this on CNN...I believe. Even Nixon's thugs resigned first. It would have saved the WH from the talking point that the indictment was delivered TO the White House. Scooter knew it was coming--they all did. Didn't anyone say, go quietly to save some face for the Office of the President? Are these people that arrogant? Granted, the news today would still have been all bad, but still I think not resigning yesterday shows absolutely no respect for the Office of the President, and by that I DON'T mean Bush, but the Office itself and all it supposedly stands for.

[Skidmore]

1. Probably thought he could make one last deal before his

coach turned into a pumpkin.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. It requires a sense of Honor. Since when have you seen any hint of that?

[mestup]

3. To me it suggests internal WH warfare.

This regime has always moved in Lockstep Crucial, planning, lying, more planning, more lying with everyone on the same page. Things are falling apart.

[MADem]

8. Good point, that

I had heard that Ari squawked, but I was surprised to hear his name used to bang a nail in the coffin.

It would be funny if the GOP were bested by their very own "divide and conquer" strategy!

[joeybee12]

11. Good point, and I hope you're right!

[C_U_L8R]

4. And why has Bush done NOTHING !?

Either:

a. Bush is just as guilty

b. Bush is a total dumbass

c. all of the above

[MADem]

5. My theory is that they wanted to feed the beast a fine meal

...with the hope that it would go away satisfied.

Problem was, that massive document with the Mr. A and the detailed explanations has only left the beast deciding that he would like a second, third, fourth, fifth...hell, maybe a 22 course FEAST.

They were hoping that by throwing one virgin into the volcano, the media gods would stop tossing lava on them--but it didn't work! They figured the resignation would take a huge amount of media coverage, but it is only a sentence at the end of all the other coverage.

The pundits are having way too much fun with this, and even the "nothing to see here" types can only muster a "Well, they didn't get Rove, TODAY, anyway..."

You have to wonder how many more shoes will drop. I have the feeling the Special Prosecutor is a centipede, so there could be many more thuds on the floor to come...

[joeybee12]

9. So, this is the gift that keeps on giving, right? More to come?

That's my hope. I think Rove wasn't indicted because Fitzgerald offered him a deal, but Rove said no, he could beat anything. So Fitzgerald is going back and getting more on Rove, and in the process, will learn more about who else was involved. Anyway, I hope this is the case.

[MADem]

10. I think this goes even higher than Rover

It would not surprise me if Cheney's name, as well as Rummy's, eventually find their way into this mess.

Hell, Ari ratted Scooter out without even thinking twice. We know Ari was all over the WH, at all of the good meetings, in the front of the plane...Ari could be a real problem for them.

And I suspect he ain't the best of the witnesses, either!

Drip, drip, drip...and then the levee breaks!

[joeybee12]

12. That's what I think...that the more Fitzgerald digs, the more people

he reins in...and in a way it's better that Rove wasn't indicted today--the MSM (for the most part) knows that's coming, so maybe it's better to have it leak and leak out slowly for months on end, instead of one big announcement, and then it takes a year or so for it go to trial. There's nothing the MSM likes more than to speculate, and if they can keep doing that for another year, fine with me.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

6. Because Bush's is a stubborn pig-headed arrogant nimrod.

n/t

[Rufus T. Firefly]

7. You answered your own question.

"It would have been the honorable thing to do."

These people HAVE no honor.