Bush Administration Self Destructs in 5, 4, 3 . . .

Simply amazing.

I look at the headlines and shake my head in wonder. The Plame Affair, so long swept under the rug, might actually bring down Rove, and perhaps the Dark Lord himself, the Vice President. Bush's approval ratings are dismal. The war in Iraq has gone so, so bad (though not as bad as I feared. Yet.) And the news for them just keeps getting worse.

And what really makes me scratch my head is that they've done it to themselves. The opposition, the generally clueless Democrats, haven't figured out how to oppose. The press has been, until lately, in full lapdog mode.

So, let's ask, "what if" a bit. What if Cheney was forced to resign, Rove and Libby were indicted and resign as well. Bush is cut of from his most trusted advisors. What then?

Hell, we've been there before. How long until some more "you'll have to trust me on this" evidence comes out that Iran is plotting something nefarious against us and we'll just have to invade.

God help us if things go really badly for Bush and they start a shouting match with China.

OK, enough of that.

Here's what it gets down to. Someone in the Bush administration outed an active duty undercover CIA agent for political gain. Frankly, I'd call it treason and haul Karl Rove and Scooter Libby and the VP himself out back of the White House and shoot them. The President deserves impeachment for allowing it to go unanswered for two years. If he wasn't involved he could have called the VP in on day one, demanded to know the truth, and fired all of them on the spot. But he didn't. If he knew, that's conspiracy. If he didn't know, that's incompetence.

And shame on the special prosecutor and the press for not bringing this to a close well before the last election.

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