If there is one thing that has been made abundantly clear this Fitzmas it is that the Bush administration cannot investigate itself. The corruption inside the White House is so pervasive, so Golem-like in it's totality that the light of truth hath not sufficient velocity to escape the dark event-horizon that shrouds its imploding black inner core.
Helen Thomas once asked Scott Mclellan why the president didn't just call his staff together and ask them who leaked Valerie Plame's status. Obviously, the answer to the question is that if he did that then he wouldn't be able to smear the prosecutor!
All kidding aside, Fitzgerald's consummate professionalism has taken that option off the table - which with this crowd is like telling Jerry Rice he's not allowed to run the slant anymore! (lots of sports metaphors these days...)
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What Libby and the rest of the Bushies
do have going for them at this point is the pardon card, which these motherfuckers always seem to pull out of their ass in these situations; and as long as Libby believes that he will never see the inside of a jail cell Fitzy will never be able to use his natural leverage as a prosecutor and therefore never bring down the (White) house of cards.
If we expect to have any hope of pulling out a meaningful victory from this whole disgusting episode then Democrats need to push hard for congressional hearings. Since Dems hold majorities in neither body of congress that means we have to use the media (granted, something we're not particularly adept at!) to guilt republicans into voting with us. This may not be totally naïve on my part - there are some republicans who are critical of the White House's handling of the leak, for instance Republican House Government Reform Committee Chairman Thomas M. Davis III who said he was "very disappointed in Libby, and the White House, and the vice president and the president. They should have taken care of this a long time ago, they should have done their own investigation. They're going to get very little sympathy on Capitol Hill, at least from me. . . . They brought this on themselves."
If Republicans resist the idea of congressional hearings then we must keep the spotlight shining strong, we must ceaselessly make the point that Fitzgerald made in his press conference: that Libby's lies and obstruction have prevented the truth from being told. Far from the mere "technicality" that oozed from Kay Baily Hutchinson's foul orifice, what Libby has done has subverted the very foundation of our democracy and only through congressional oversight can the executive branch's "evil-doings" be brought to public accountability.
I guess what I'm saying here people is EMAIL YOUR CONGRESSMAN !!!