I am trying not to be an asshole about this Karl Rove thing. Really. I really don’t want to be the big asshole gloater about it. Oh and it’s tempting. W and his thuggish minions have, for the entirety of their time in the White House; lied, connived, contradicted everything they have ever said, and yes, broken the law (or made it up as they went along, which is pretty much the same thing). We on the left have TRIED to tell everyone this, honestly, but no one would listen. Maybe it’s because Bono is so obnoxious. I don’t know.

     The point is we have been right about everything we have ever said about them, from the tax cut to the war, and for some reason, everyone believes them instead. It has been, in a word, frustrating.

      But the Karl Rove thing is different. Let me lay it out for you. Before the last election this Time reporter, Matthew Cooper, wrote some stories about the whole Nigeria uranium thing and how it was made up crap to scare the nation into war. This made Bush look like a liar, which he is, that resulted in Bush having to apologize, which he hates. So Bush’s campaign manager, the current White House Chief of Staff, Karl “The Architect” Rove, leaked to a reporter classified and highly sensitive information about this guy’s wife.  He put this woman’s life in danger, to smite a political enemy, and to try to stifle the press.

     His lawyer claims that he didn’t do anything wrong, that he didn’t say the woman’s name, and is therefore not a dirty scumbag. We’ll see. Doesn’t matter anyway, unless he did it, in which case we are looking at some serious Nixon style trouble.

     Either way, last year the White House said all of the following things:

Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak.

They would fire anyone having to do with the leak.

That it was Ridiculous to assert that Karl Rove had anything to do with the leak.