Anything for Karl

There being a major emergency requiring extraordinary measures, the President is going to stay up past his usual beddie-bye time of 9PM tonight. The President will sacrifice a few zzzzz's for his nominal brain, Karl "The Traitor" Rove, and try to change the subject of many recent news reports regarding a certain administration figure who likes to jeopordize CIA agents' lives - yes, that same Mr. Rove. And like 8-year-olds playing soccer, the press will fall for this tactic head over heels and follow the bouncing, shiny ball.

But from the initial reports of the person Bush has picked to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, it sounds like very little news will be made tonight, except that we may not be getting the ultra-Right, phony-Constructionist type that Bush says he likes (like this fictional court seen below):

(Edit: Karl ain't totally off balance - Z)

Scary as that is, the main news tonight is that Bush is trying to save Turd Blossom from his soon-to-be treason indictments. Bush dismissively and arrogantly brushed aside the question yesterday at his news conference, though it's plain as the twitch in Karl Rove's eye that this is the plan: name the justice, take the media's eye off their current obsession, get the public thinking about how decisive and "Presidential" Bush is, and get Karl's ass out of that sling.

I don't think it will work. And federal prosecutors couldn't care less what's in the news - they do their job like pit bulls with a bloody bone, and nothing, not even a presidential news conference, can make them lose that blood thirst.

Go get 'im, Patrick.

(picture courtesy - ok, I stole it! no need for me to get indicted too - from Mike Tidmus, who seems like the creative type and has a very entertaining blog -- Z)