Karl Rove has been dancing as fast as he can, trying to explain why he really didn't ruin Valerie Plame's cover. Listen to what he says: "I never gave the woman's name."
That line should join, "I did not have sex with that woman" as notorious.
No, he may not have named her name, but there is no doubt, at least in the mind of the reporter who broke the story, that Karl Rove was telling him who the CIA agent was.
Let's turn now to President Bush. The man who ran on a platform in 2000 of restoring dignity to the White House. The man who said that anyone who compromises the identity of a CIA agent should be fired. Yet, when questioned about this, he talks about how he is loyal to his friends.
Loyalty! What about his duty to uphold the office of the President, as he swore to do so, not once, but twice?
In another decade, in another White House, aides to a president decided that it wasn't enough to win re-election with hard work and a convincing platform. A bungled break-in, an ill-handled coverup, a courageous although, perhaps, bitter high-ranking FBI official, and the president ultimately resigned.
Karl Rove was part of that GOP philosophy that dirty pool is good politics.
And the Bush White House is starting to resemble the Nixon White House.
Dignity and integrity, indeed. Ha! If George W. Bush were as ethical as he claims to be, he would fire Karl Rove.
Instead, he is loyal to his friends.
I would rather have a president put the good of the U.S. ahead of his friends.
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