What am I doing still at work? Pasta only knows. At least I got outside to take a FedEx package before the deadline.
What is really going on behind the scene between Cheney and Rove? Well, Scooter Libby might know, as Dan Froomkin reports:
Dan Froomkin - A Lurid Look Behind the Curtain - washingtonpost.com There's plenty of exciting White House news today -- not from President Bush's predictable State of the Union speech last night at the Capitol, however, but from the opening arguments at the Scooter Libby trial at the federal courthouse down the street.....How that scapegoating might mitigate Libby's alleged crime of perjuring himself to investigators isn't exactly clear -- but it sure gives us a rare and troubling view of the viper pit that apparently lurks beneath the West Wing's placid veneer.
Was Libby a scapegoat or a liar? Was he a victim of White House backstabbing, or a puppet in Cheney's obsessive war against those who dared question the highly questionable case for war in Iraq? Neither would reflect well on the White House. And they're not mutually exclusive.
If nothing else, the Libby defense hints at an answer to what I have long considered one of the great mysteries of this administration: How do Bush's two Svengalis -- Cheney and Rove -- get along? Apparently, not so great.
I say - duck pit match, 'till the death!
Tags: Cheney, /Frog March, /Karl_Rove, /Plame
