Thursday, November 03, 2005

Rover Rollover

Time for Karl to go? So say some anonymous GOP officials.

There is also this tidbit:
    While Rove faces doubts about his White House status, there are new indications that he remains in legal jeopardy from Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's criminal investigation of the Plame leak. The prosecutor spoke this week with an attorney for Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper about his client's conversations with Rove before and after Plame's identity became publicly known because of anonymous disclosures by White House officials, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.
    Fitzgerald is considering charging Rove with making false statements in the course of the 22-month probe, and sources close to Rove -- who holds the titles of senior adviser and White House deputy chief of staff -- said they expect to know within weeks whether the most powerful aide in the White House will be accused of a crime.
    But some top Republicans
I still think the odds are Rove stays unless or until he is indicted. Most of these blind quotes are coming from people outside the White House that think it might not be a bad idea politically if Rove were ditched now, preempting any Fitzgerald indictment. While they may be right, I think Bush knows that he'd have a hard time surviving without Rove. He's a little baby, who's two daddies - Rove and Cheney - are now in some serious trouble. Oh, the next three years are going to be fun!

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