[quesney]

"it's looking fine for Rove"

Really? Did you read the briefing. Despite numerous opportunities from all the questions he was peppered with today, McClellan could bring himself to explicitly defend Rove, citing the investigation, which hadn't stopped him from defending Rove before. Read the briefing. It's damning for what he doesn't say in Rove's defense. That's troubling, no?

[cyncooper]

LOL

[Shermy]

"That's troubling, no?"

Who cares what a pr hack has to say?

[Dems_R_Losers]

Rove is made of stern stuff, and so is the rest of this White House bunch. He is not going to turn tail and run like John Sununu did. He will not be indicted, the moonbats will go crazy for a while, and that will be the end of it. Republicans control Congress so there will be no Congressional hearings or investigations. Bush and Cheney are not running in 2008, so they don't need to fire Rove over this either, and they won't.

People forget that sometimes federal investigations DO end without indictments! There is no evidence of crimes committed here, by Karl Rove or anyone else.

The one thing that still POs me about the reporting on this is that the MSM continue to call Valerie Plame a CIA "agent." They know full well that in the minds of their readers and viewers, the word "agent" conjures up the image of a U.S. spy undercover in some dangerous part of the world, not an analyst with a cushy desk job at Langley which is what Plame is. People who know no better are going to be agitated at the thought of anyone in the White House leaking the name of a real spy who could have been killed as a result. They could not care less about leaking the name of a garden-variety CIA desk analyst, especially one who couldn't wait to appear in Vanity Fair and whose career hardly seems to have suffered as a result of the revelation. The MSM very deliberately using language to try to drum up public outrage where none is deserved.

[quesney]

clarification:

Really? Did you read the briefing? Despite numerous opportunities from all the questions he was peppered with today, McClellan **COULD NOT** bring himself to explicitly defend Rove, citing the investigation, which hadn't stopped him from defending Rove before. Read the briefing. It's damning for what he doesn't say in Rove's defense. That's troubling, no?

[daybreakcoming]

Maybe you missed the part where McClellan stated they had been asked by the Prosecutor not to make any statements from that podium concerning the case.
That said, I don't see how McClellan refrained from throwing the podium at a couple of the msm today.