Rove Roundup

Fox and the right-wing blogs are staying far, far away from the Rove story. Unable to spin the facts this time-- Bush said he'd fire anyone involved in the leak, and Rove is the leaker-- they're opting for Plan B. It's all about the "anti-Bush media" blowing this way out of proportion. Have they looked at the polls lately? This is an anti-Bush nation.

AP had this intro: For two years, the White House has insisted that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a CIA officer's identity. And President Bush said the leaker would be fired.

But Mr. Bush's spokesman wouldn't repeat any of those assertions Monday in the face of Rove's own lawyer saying his client spoke with at least one reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified in a newspaper column after her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, wrote an article criticizing the Bush administration's Iraq policies.

Over at the Philadelphia Daily News: It's now clear that Rove, President Bush's chief political street fighter, can't be trusted with the nation's secrets. Not when a cheap political attack can be made.

Then there's CNN's headline White House clams up on CIA leak. Nicely put.

There's plenty more, but it looks like the press is covering a Bush scandal as it's actually occurring. Wow.