I have received no fewer than 20 Rove related stories this AM...

[whistle]

...through Google alert. That's a three to four fold increase over such alerts since I first began them some 30 days ago. The general leaning of these articles, editorials and stories from the MSM is calling for Rove's resignation, to Bush firing Rove, to calling for stepped up investigations into criminal conduct on the part of Rove and the administration. A real about turn from earlier alert reports. Here is just one from the Boston Globe:

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The Boston Globe
GLOBE EDITORIAL
Rove evasions
July 13, 2005

IT'S TIME for President Bush to take Karl Rove to the woodshed and show him the ax. And if Bush doesn't get better answers than the public has, he should use the ax.

Instead, the White House is producing mealy-mouthed comments that seek to avoid responsibility. Yesterday Bush ignored a reporter's question as to whether he might dismiss Rove, his deputy chief of staff and top political adviser. Shortly after, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said the president has confidence in ''any individual who works here at the White House."

This milquetoast response was apparently meant as support for Rove. It followed an extraordinary performance on Monday, when McClellan ducked 61 press questions -- including ''Did Karl Rove commit a crime?" -- saying that he was clamming up because of an ''ongoing investigation." Never mind that McClellan had no such qualms more than a year ago when he defended Rove stoutly despite the fact that the investigation by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was ongoing then.

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<link> http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/07/13/rove_evasions/

[iconoclastic cat]

1. They're like pistachios! You can't stop eating them!

[wtmusic]

2. Too funny!

Post 'o the day! :thumbsup:

:rofl:

[malaise]

3. The question is

what will be the diversion to take this off the front pages although I don't see this going away any time soon.