Bush Through the Looking Glass

For those of us needing a hit of Rove/Libby


http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7513.shtml


Bush Through The Looking Glass
By MARTIN SCHRAM
Oct 12, 2005, 05:26
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The only way for journalists to cover the Bush White House these days is to view it through Alice's Looking Glass. Suddenly, all the familiar images appear reversed. Clocks are running backwards. Outcomes are preceding events. And Tweedledum and Tweedledee are big in the news.

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Finally, Tweedledum and Tweedledee (see also: the Rovester and the Scooter): Rove and Lewis (Scooter) Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, have been embroiled in the probe about how a CIA secret agent's identity was revealed. While there is no indication as to what if any action will be taken by the special prosecutor on the case, Rove at least has done what he was said to have assured the president he had not done: He reportedly told the president he hadn't talked to reporters about agent Valerie Plame. Now it is known that he did.

So it is that inside the Looking Glass, things get curiouser and curiouser.

cover its shining tail-
and pour the waters of denial
one every golden scale...

Tweedletw*t, and I think we all know who that is.

Tweedledee" aren't * and Gore..they're some of the chimp's cronies. Not, that Gore ever was because he wasn't! That was just some convenient phrasing from a certain spoiler.

I read on DU that Harry Reid was a genius for suggesting miers..this writer seems to disagree. I'm not so sure.

"Maybe we all should have seen it coming. After all, this problem began when Bush took what is for him a rare move indeed. He actually consulted with a few Democrats before deciding. Falling in the polls, beset by failures foreign and domestic and wanting most of all to avoid yet another nomination battle, our Republican president selected the person who was recommended to him by the Senate's leading Democrat, Harry Reid of Nevada. (The only thing of which we can be sure in this is that Reid, who is something of a political plodder, could not possibly have had the requisite twitching political antennae to sense the great Grand Old Party mess he'd set up for the president.)"