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08-02-2005, 08:44 PM
Republicans Ready to Slime Fitzgerald (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455795/posts)
NY Observer ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.observer.com/opinions_conason.asp) | Aug 1, 2005 | Joe Conason
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Karl Rove
Under the harsh but savvy tutelage of Karl Rove, Republicans have repeatedly demonstrated their adherence to a venerable cliché: In politics, as in sports and warfare, the best defense is always a good offense—and the more offensive, the better. It’s an effective strategy, as John Kerry and many other hapless victims have learned, and at this point also a highly predictable one.
Circled in a bristling perimeter around the White House, the friends and allies of Mr. Rove can soon be expected to fire their rhetorical mortars at Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating the White House exposure of C.I.A. operative Valerie Wilson. Indeed, the preparations for that assault began months ago in the editorial columns of The Wall Street Journal, which has tarred Mr. Fitzgerald as a “loose cannon” and an “unguided missile.”
Evidently Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, will lead the next foray against the special prosecutor. This week the Senator’s press office announced his plan to hold hearings on the Fitzgerald probe. That means interfering with an “ongoing investigation,” as the White House press secretary might say, but such considerations won’t deter the highly partisan Kansan...
If only they were candid, the Rove Republicans would say that was then, this is now—and ethical consistency is strictly for losers.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com (http://www.observer.com/opinions_conason.asp) ...
NY Observer ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.observer.com/opinions_conason.asp) | Aug 1, 2005 | Joe Conason
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http://www.observer.com/database/articleimages/photoimages/080105_article_conason.jpg
Karl Rove
Under the harsh but savvy tutelage of Karl Rove, Republicans have repeatedly demonstrated their adherence to a venerable cliché: In politics, as in sports and warfare, the best defense is always a good offense—and the more offensive, the better. It’s an effective strategy, as John Kerry and many other hapless victims have learned, and at this point also a highly predictable one.
Circled in a bristling perimeter around the White House, the friends and allies of Mr. Rove can soon be expected to fire their rhetorical mortars at Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating the White House exposure of C.I.A. operative Valerie Wilson. Indeed, the preparations for that assault began months ago in the editorial columns of The Wall Street Journal, which has tarred Mr. Fitzgerald as a “loose cannon” and an “unguided missile.”
Evidently Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, will lead the next foray against the special prosecutor. This week the Senator’s press office announced his plan to hold hearings on the Fitzgerald probe. That means interfering with an “ongoing investigation,” as the White House press secretary might say, but such considerations won’t deter the highly partisan Kansan...
If only they were candid, the Rove Republicans would say that was then, this is now—and ethical consistency is strictly for losers.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com (http://www.observer.com/opinions_conason.asp) ...