You just can't be so chronically scummy and transparently evil... offering no hope, nothing uplifting, no patriotism ... without it finally reaching critical mass.
I can imagine any number of people that Judith Miller would be protecting (if that's what she's truly doing) .. that's how pervasive and insidious the swamp has become... and it wouldn't really shock me.
It's so perfectly understandable why W insists on loyalty and zipped lips .. he knew very well the viper pit he was entering.
Do you notice how they almost SNEER when they say "Loyalty matters most to Bush?"