[Sopsneork]

*shakes head* no, no, no. What is this! Earlier, after the hurricane- business, Rove did something very strange. He failed to see the opportunity to leech into the human compassion for the victims in NO, and instead the administration managed to name the displaced and homeless "refugees". And after that fail to make the president seize a great opportunity to promote a conservative agenda and an appropriate fiscal policy for the rebuilding. Instead, he's photographed over the gulf, disconnected and removed, crying over the lost oil- refineries. And it never went well after that.

And now, what happens? After some noise about how the prewar- intel was misleading and that the president lied, they launch their counter- offensive... BY ADMITTING THEY WERE WRONG!!!! What the fuck are you doing, you monkey- turd- slinging asshat! Rove, you dissappoint me.

"Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq Argument".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111101832.html

Also note the Whitehouse response to this:
1. Robb- Silberman committee finds "No evidence of political pressure". (the "dead wrong" and "disastrously one- sided" - report that states: "Accordingly, while we
interviewed a host of current and former policymakers during the course of
our investigation, the purpose of those interviews was to learn about how the
Intelligence Community reached and communicated its judgments about
Iraq’s weapons programs—not to review how policymakers subsequently
used that information.").
http://www.wmd.gov/report/wmd_report.pdf , p. 24.
2. The british Butler inquiry find no evidence of any distorted or sexed- up intelligence.
3. The senate select committee did not find any evidence of attempts to influence analysists to change their intelligence.
4. Democrats are stupid.
5. So are you.

The point is, of course, that the Whitehouse is setting themselves up and will have to answer to just exactly how they used the intelligence available, since they made the intelligence assessments, and also just how the hell the CIA apparently managed to make consistent assessments confirming the Administration's assertions while turning out to be "dead wrong", without ever noting a single misgiving about it all that the president's people saw. And the public speeches, and so on... Was anything of that grounded in evidence? An obvious question that has been avoided by order during the last few reports.

And I can only conclude that Rove has mysteriously died in some way and someone else is in the hotseat. Someone with, oh, say, the political subtlety of a shotgun slug through a rack of teddy- bears.

Alas. Oh, dear, oh dear. My favorite presidency is having trouble with their hot- air balloon. I'm so terribly disappointed with them. And I'm soo crushed right now. Oh, woe is me. How terrible this is. How can they do this to me! Oh, the pain and sorrow is too much to bear! Mm? Oh, excuse me, the coffee is ready.