Blood in the Water

The Rove affair continues to obsess Washington and the political blogosphere, where it is becoming mortal political combat.

Bringing down Rove on this issue is a lot like getting Al Capone for tax evasion. Still, there is a certain blood lust in the glee with which anti-Bushites are going after Rove, and there is the give-no-quarter distortions and lies of the GOPer defenders. The result is a lot of ugly noise, a little light, and it seems to me a short-sighted strategy ending with getting rid of Rove, while indications accumulate that we may be missing the true dimensions of the situation.

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