Month: October 2005

Fitzmas Day will be when Libby goes to court, if he gets to court.

Last nite on ABC evening news it sounded like real news – the first time in a long time and they did not mince words. Maybe it was because I was hearing stuff I wanted to hear, but there was a news VIGOR that had been missing for years.
My thought is that maybe now some MSM will cut the WH choke hold and get on the news the way it should be done.

I also checked fox etc., out and the spin will get deafening. They will attack Wilson and Valerie like nobody’s business.

But should Rove get indicted also that might nip some of the spin in the bud.

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Scary!

Don’t stop celebrating, this is still a HUGE blow to the Bush Administration, and it’s not over yet. Rove’s still under investigation (more on the investigation HERE and on the Fitzgerald press conference HERE).

But. Since Libby submitted his resignation immediately, a replacement will have to be named. The Daily News, anticipating the Libby indictment reported this morning that sources close to Cheney’s office reveal that Libby “will be replaced by Cheney’s current chief counsel, David Addington” about whom Scott Shields says: “to put it kindly, [he’s] a real piece of work.”

Shields quotes liberally from a Washington Post profile:

Even in a White House known for its dedication to conservative philosophy, Addington is known as an ideologue, an adherent of an obscure philosophy called the unitary executive theory that favors an extraordinarily powerful president.

Read the rest of the money quotes [HERE]. (MyDD)

— From Evan Derkacz at Alternet’s PEEK.

BYO Bush-Administration-Head-on-a-Platter PARTY OPEN THREAD!

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As I write this, I realize I have only questions and no conclusions.  I am confused, deeply.  Therefore, I turn to you dear reader and ask you to share your thoughts.

I swim daily and have for years.  I do so in a community pool.  The village I live in is quite diverse.  There is a large Asian population. Persians are prevalent.  Hispanics are plentiful.  The black populace is growing and of course, there are Caucasians.  They intermingle, and yet, they are separate.  Their lives are so connected and their stories are not, or are they.

I am a conversational soul; I enjoy engaging with others.  I love learning, and; therefore I ask much.  In asking, often, I discover what I cannot imagine.  Today I was reminded of this.

A woman I swim with, and have for a time, is from Afghanistan born and raised.  Her family still lives there, as do her friends.  She did not leave her homeland; she courageously fled.  Her heart and her mind remain in her country of origin.  Tonight. I ask her of the war and America’s involvement.  She favors it.

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[From the diaries by susanhu.]

I went into this afternoon’s press conference wanting blood. I, like many here, was like a shark, circling in the shallow water, waiting for my feeder, Fitz, to toss some red (read Republican) meat my way. But I came out of the conference with something unexpected.

I was going to blog about it, but then I read a comment by wg on k/o: politics + culture.

He said it better than I ever could:

BUT, I think I may be experiencing, Linus-like, the deeper meaning of Fitzmas. Watching and listening to Fitz, I rediscovered something I haven’t felt in a long, long time: a kind of simple, optimistic pride in the potential and promise of America. I know that sounds fatuous, but it felt like, after crawling through the desert, I was finally rewarded with a tall, clear glass of ice-cold life-sustaining water. I took such profound and unexpected pleasure in the trust I felt in this guy. And I even found a perverse satisfaction in the way he frustrated my shallow partisan craving for a brutal rhetorical smackdown. When was the last time you had the experience of seeing somebody on tv, in a political context, that you didn’t feel compelled to view through an angry ideological prism? It was such a relief to not be an analyzing and enraged critic, or even a chortling schadenfreudian. I just had a very simple, almost childlike, faith in this guy. He’ll follow the evidence where it leads and no further, but he’s not afraid of anybody, especially these smug thugs. He seemed like a walking, human rebuke to the insane political atmosphere of the last decade. I know this all sounds ridiculous and naive, but perhaps that only suggests how deeply I was craving, without even really being aware of it, somebody to believe in again. I believe in fairness, and justice, and equality, and civility. And I saw that today in Patrick Fitzgerald. And maybe that, Charlie Brown, is the true meaning of Fitzmas.

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From the indictment:

21. On or about July 10 or July 11, 2003, LIBBY spoke to a senior official in the White House (“Official A”) who advised LIBBY of a conversation Official A had earlier that week with columnist Robert Novak in which Wilson’s wife was discussed as a CIA employee involved in Wilson’s trip. LIBBY was advised by Official A that Novak would be writing a story about Wilson’s wife.

CNN’s Larry King has just announced that sources have revealed that Official A is Karl Rove.

Fitzgerald had been asked about Official A during his press conference today and said he wasn’t sure if he could reveal Official A’s identity – that he would have to check with his colleagues. Apparently, they have decided to make that revelation tonite.

So, it looks like Rove was Novak’s source. I think Rove is in big trouble.

Update [2005-10-28 22:12:9 by catnip]:: John Solomon of AP has more about all of today’s indictment news, including the fact that Official A is Karl Rove.

Crooks and Liars has the video of Fitzgerald’s press conference.

WaPo has the transcript.

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