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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.

We marvel at how well President Bush outfoxes them at every turn, and that's all well and good, but the fact that the President of the United States has to do battle daily with a pack of harpies is sad, sad, sad.

Just imagine what might have been accomplished over the past few years if the Dems had been even halfway civil.

Losers.

Hence the keeping of Miller in jail lest she ruin the scandal by revealing her obviously non-Rove source. She'll spoil the thing.

Oh man is this a good point. She has to be getting sick of being in jail too. She might last or might not but she definitely could ruin the whole thing for the MSM. Did you notice the story about her not doing well and losing weight? I'm sure the attempt to make her a martyr is part of the plan. It's such a 'shame' that the MSM has to divide its attention between Karl Rove and Judge Roberts; my heart bleeds.