[Indy Pendance]

They must be so confused! LOL!

[Samurai_Jack]

Talk about bad timing.

YESSSS!!!
Go ahead and question the timing!

[mainepatsfan]

Perhaps Bush should appoint Bolton just to really give the Dems a lot on their plate.

[neodad]

Rove's plan all along, of course.

[onyx eyes]

For God's Sake! Byron York, be careful of your vernacular. Saying Schumer reserves the right to kill the nomination .....gave me such a jolt...... (until I read the words nomination afterwards....)

[Billthedrill]

The media have more of a stake in the Rove affair than the Dems do as a whole - to the latter it's useful in getting revenge on a political rival and smearing Bush with the residue, but at the end of it they will have accomplished at worst the removal of an Assistant White House Chief of Staff. Impeachment on this issue is laughable and Bush isn't running for re-election. But to the media it is the latest effort to manufacture a scandal after a very old model. If it fails the loss to them in terms of intimidation of their opponents, and Bush and the Republicans are very much their opponents, will be enormous. Hence the keeping of Miller in jail lest she ruin the scandal by revealing her obviously non-Rove source. She'll spoil the thing. She takes one for the team and rots.

We have a potential split in interest here - delaying or defeating Roberts accomplishes for the Democrats what removing Rove does for the media - it maintains a level of fear that is their last, best grasp on a power that otherwise they feel slipping through their fingers. Given the choice they'd much rather defeat Roberts. Given their choice, the media would much rather remove Rove. And each side has a stake in the other, and so both will insist on both and as a result gain neither.

Strategery.

[StoneGiant]

[jos65]

I find this terribly hard to believe. They have a very difficult time walking and chewing gum at the same time.
I am sure the spinmeisters will be out with their NO rationale.

[jos65]

I find this terribly hard to believe. They have a very difficult time walking and chewing gum at the same time.
I am sure the spinmeisters will be out with their NO rationale.

[Mike Darancette]

Please let Move-On and the other lefty cells spend all of their money.

[nopardons]

bttt

[King Prout]

and the best part: whichever gentleman they assault with their gasseous emissions, the Dems will LOSE.