Karl Rove is guilty of many despicable acts, but revealing CIA agent Valerie Plume is beyond the pale even for him. For the Bush administration to label every dissenting voice as unpatriotic and even treasonous while taking no action against Karl Rove for viciously, vengefully, exposing the identity of one of America's legitimate soldiers in the war on terror is supreme hypocrisy.
Failing to fire Karl Rove—or better yet try him for treason, but who am I kidding—would be like promising to better equip and fund police, fire and health departments to respond to terror attacks in the wake of 9/11 and then reneging. It would be like promising to do everything in our power to ensure the safety of our soldiers in Iraq and then sending them to their deaths in unarmored vehicles. It would be like asking our soldiers to risk horrible mutilation and dismemberment while cutting services and funding to veterans and their families…Yes. It’s true, we’ve come to expect hypocrisy from Bush, but I smell blood: Rove’s. Rove is ready for a fall. Bringing Karl Rove down would be a major coup for democracy and the rule of law and seriously diminish Bush’s credibility--even in the eyes of his blinded admirers.