Yada Yadda Yadda
Bush could so easily put a stop to all this. He should fire Valerie Plame, and have her and Joe Wilson investigated by the Justice Department. He is the Chief Executive, and that means he is the boss of the CIA, and everyone there works for him. If he, as President, should decide that Valerie Plame was not to be an undercover operative, he could say so, and it would be done.
This whole undercover operative thing is a big heap of bull crap, hot and steamy as well. I wonder what Mr. Bush thinks he is going to get from the Democrats by just bending over every time they attack him. You don't want the other party to be your enemy, but the olive branch has been used as a weapon on the Republicans ever since day one.
One could make a list 5 years long of the number of occasions that Mr. Bush deferred to the Democrats in hope of setting a new tone in Washington, and every single instance is accompanied by a back stabbing.
And all I can think of is that Mr. Bush and the Republicans are scared of the media. It's like a wife being abused by her husband: Until she decides to put a stop to it, he will keep doing it. The media hates us. They are liberals, and they hate us. They beat us, and we say we're sorry for making them hate us. What a shining example we are.