Rove on Q

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Have to admit, I truly enjoyed Bob Boldt's offering, courtesy of Joe's last post (see below). However, I had some thoughts on it, but did not want to turn this into "dueling posts," so I kept them to the comments.

The thumbnail version is simply that, in my humble opinion, Bob nailed it; it's all just smoke and mirrors, spin cycle in overdrive, weapons of mass distraction.

And just why would they need us to be distracted from the truth about the CIA leak? Because they have much to fear in that department, both from Fitz and from the Plame lawsuit. Remember: we have not seen anything official since Libby was indicted, except for the various filings in the Libby case. And those filings suggest they have good reason to be shopping for diapers.

So don't despair, because again, there are just so many reasons these guys are nervous. The mid-terms look very very bad for the Repugs, and it just keeps getting worse, there's mutiny among the once uber-disciplined ranks, and evidently, Rove has lost his campaign mojo.
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If the mid-terms put the Dems in control of Congress, the Keystone Kabal will have very much to fear, indeed.

Not only are they giving us this full court press on how Armitage is "the source," and the case shoulda been over already, cut Libby loose, but there is now increasing trash talk about Fitz. Emptywheel has provided another of her astute assessments of the falacy of these attempts. (Warning: She relies on logic and reasonable evidence!)

So, dear friends, please do not despair, because I honestly believe these events, which you and I and Bob Boldt can all see through like crystal, are orchestrated out of desperation, and to distract us from the damaging truths, and possibly from some rumbling, seismic events.

Same as it ever was.

But, there's more. In fact, kind of coincidental that Joe posted Bob's ode to Mr. A today, because there is just so much percolating about said official.

Evidently, two new books are due out in a few days, the first one being Corn and Isikoff's Hubris (from which came all the original hype about Armitage), which is expected to spill a great many more juicy little tidbits about the WH nightmare beyond this particular leak scandal. David Corn, remember, is the person who first raised the question about the legality of exposing the identity of a CIA agent.

And there is also the new book by James Moore and Wayne Slater, The Architect, which exposes some truly, erm, inconvenient truths about our favorite Fartblossom. Take for instance the allegation that Rove held numerous secret meetings with Abramoff, often on streetcorners, which kept it all so difficult to trace, and now so ...so ...so, well, suspect. At best.

And consider that Rove is an agnostic who played the Christian right for political ends, often playing factions against each other, and then played them against gays when his father is such, and played the race card while working Indian-scalper Abramoff into the mix, with "liberal" dashes of the abortion and immigration issues, just for spice.

And take the fact that Rove's stepfather was evidently gay, and after supporting the family and serving as Karl's father figure for 20 years, he left the family to live openly as a gay man. And then Karl's mother committed suicide (which we knew, but in this new context of being left for a man puts that event in a unique perspective).

Ya gotta know Rove and his bosses gotta know these facts are coming out. The authors and publishers have to fact check, and they do so many interviews. You just know they know, they're gonna be getting very unfavorable publicity.

So they deflect. They distract. They dissemble.

But there seems to be an awful lot of it flyin' around right now, and one cannot help but wonder what is motivating this level of desperation. In '04, they just called out the swiftboaters and orange alerts, which seemed to work. But now, they've lost two huge money sources in Abramoff and DeLay, the natives are getting very restless about incumbents and they're not at all happy about just about everything from the war to the economy, the WH is under so many scandal clouds they look like Pigpen, even the ranks are in mutiny, and gosh, it's not clear Rove's Miracle Vote Manipulation machinery will work with significant Democratic leads and so many eyes on that machinery itself.

Recently, the smell of panic has been getting mighty pungent, and there may be reason to suspect perhaps there's more to it than the obvious. Larry Johnson has posted the tantalizing speculation that the reason there is so much fretting and strutting specifically about Fitz of late is that it's time to discredit the prosecutor, time to kill the messenger. This, he says, bodes a move from Fitz in the form of indictments for Cheney and Steven Hadley.

Given what such a bomb would do to the Republicans' chances of any wins in November, Rove would of course be doing major league pre-emptive damage control.

Right on cue.