When even reliably conservative columnists like John Kass call for Karl Rove's resignation, then perhaps it really is frog march time. Or could it be that those Republican claims to “restore dignity to the White House” was just marketing-speak, and not worth their weight in frog fur?
Chicago Tribune's John Kass
All the weasel words can't help Rove on this one. He's a brilliant political strategist, which is why Democrats want him tarred and feathered, not for the leak, but because he's working to marshal political forces in the debate to fill the vacancy in the U.S. Supreme Court.Yet if the Cooper story is true, if Rove pointed reporters at a CIA spouse, then he should be fired, pending criminal charges.
It was infuriating to read apologists for President Clinton brush off perjury as merely some involuntary response to biological forces, without regard to the long-term damage being done to the law.
Before becoming president, George Bush stood at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and said that the “the rule of law” still had currency.
