The Rove Less Traveled...

Pardon my somewhat lengthy absence of late. It's not that there has been a dearth of worthy news to snark on or anything, I've just been terribly busy. And wilting, too. Wilting in this ridiculous mid-July heat wave. Mid freaking 90s everyday. At least it's not humid.

So what is all this crap with Karl "If I spelled my first name that way in the 50s, I'd be thrown in prison for being a Commie" Rove? The guy has basically lied his ass off, and "outed" and endangered a covert CIA operative, one Valerie Plame, compromising national security in the process. And all Bush can do is give us his little monkey smirk and say he stands behind Rove. And this Rove character is the same piece of shit who said that liberals basically watched the horror of 9/11, then wanted to offer therapy and understanding to the terrorists. I promise you, undermining and basically destroying an intelligence agent of the CIA for petulant political reasons did far more to damage U.S. security than all the tree-hugging liberals put together. Like I saw on a bumper sticker recently, "Better to have a bleeding heart than none at all."

So Bush's reaction is to essentially ignore it and smirk at the cameras, waving like a little bobblehead doll, even though when this all started months ago, he specifically said he would fire anyone in his administration who had compromised (read: willfully and knowingly put at risk) any of our counter-terrorism operatives in the field. But then, what Bush said has never really meant a damn thing before, so why should it now, right?

And witness the GOP, flipping out completely over Hillary Clinton comparing Bush to MAD Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman, saying she was insulting the President, blah blah blah whatever. She wasn't saying that Bush looks like the little weirdo (although, in truth, he actually kinda does). No, she was saying that Bush's attitude towards the increasingly inarguable fact that everything on his watch is rather going to hell in a handbasket is much like that expressed by Mr. Neuman: "What, me worry?" But her comment was more than enough to work the Republican mouthpieces into a complete lather. They droned on and on about the Democratic party being "adrift and angry." Well, that's right on both counts. The "adrift" part, I presume, is being addressed and hopefully corrected. As for the "angry" part... well, why wouldn't they be angry? Look at the utter fools who are running the country (into the ground, I might add). Like another bumper sticker suggests, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."

Only about 3 more days left until the midnight selling of the new Harry Potter book. I haven't decided yet if I'll go that night or wait until Saturday, but I'll be reading it this weekend either way... of that much, I'm certain. I have the sneaking suspicion Dumbledore will die in this volume. What I can hardly believe is how staggeringly wealthy this story has made Jo Rowling. It really is just an incredible story. It'll be interesting, in a way, to see the conclusion of this nearly decade-long ride come to an end when the final book is published.