The President needs to come out TODAY and say that Karl Rove did not "out" Valerie Plame, and he will be staying on the President's team until the end of this administration. Period. The longer they can make headlines with this non-issue, the worse it will get.
Shame on that old Democrat, Novak, who sits like a sphinx with the real information, and won't give it up until October, when the grand jury term is over. He ought to be horse whipped for causing the President this grief when W should be working on serious issues. If there were real justice, Novak would be sitting in jail instead of Judith Miller.
Believe me, if either of them thought it would be best, Rove would be gone in half a second. After all, he's a campaign adviser, I would have figured he would have been gone early in 2005, working for campaigns.
Trust me, Bush sees things in the long term.