Woodward Still in the Hot Seat Rove Indictment *MAY* Still Happen

It's Monday and my day has really sucked. Change of seasons = manic dysphoria. One of those days when biploarity is No Fun at All. So, we're just going to check out where the headlines are today with "our favorite kids" inside the Beltway.

After the holiday weekend, former journalist and bestselling author Bob Woodward is still in the hotseat. It seems that over the weekend, "Meet the Press" participants were asked to comment on Big Bob and his decidedly lame excuse that he didn't tell anyone at the Post about what he knew about Plame becase "he didn't want to get subpoena'd." C'mon Bob - aren't you the college circuit hotshot who always said journalism is a contact sport? And how does that contact feel right now - when everyone's kicking you in the fanny?

David Broder's quote was repeatedly all over the Internet: "I think none of us can really understand Bob's silence for two years about his own role in the case. He's explained it by saying he did not want to become involved and did not want to face a subpoena, but he left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it. Those are hard things to reconcile."

Other pundits rip on Bob:
Broder, Kurtz & Howell offer choice tidbits (in The Public Eye)

Arianna Huffington

On Sunday's edition of PBS' McLaughlin group, former Presidential candidate and
conservative journalist Pat Buchanan predicts that "Scooter will not be the last indictee," as can be viewed in this playful soundbite video clip.

The Cheney LOVES tortures - but which side of the S&M fence is he on in his own bedroom? ;-) Read all about the dichotomy of our time - Scooter Libby, innocent until proven guilty, but not so with detainees in the bullshit war on terror.


Karl Rove: Who on Earth is Viveca Novak?

No relation to Robert Novak (or so *they* say - the smoking gun of their relationship may turn up at any *moment*) Viveca Novak is now the second Time magazine reporter to be subpoenaed in the CIA leak case. Currently, it's believed that Viveca, who quoted Rove attorney Robert Luskin in several 2004 storis about the leak, learned something that will help Rove avoid indictment and prosecution. But the fact that she is being deposed isn't necessarily good news for Rove - if he needs to defend himself, it means Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is still itching to indict him.

More on that from Middle America in the Minneapolis Star Tribune


Former Rove assistant called to testify on screened calls

And when progressive pundits start rooting for you because we still love America despite how totally lame you are, it's a sad sign, Georgie, that you're *really* in trouble this time, you bad bad boy.