Why Rove should resign

A few things are clear-- but I'll leave that to Arivosis, who I should envy for being one of those folks who's able to cram a lot of info into a few terse sentences.

Bush said he wanted to get to the bottom of this over a year ago. Why then did we have to waste all this money on a special prosecutor and a grand jury if Rove knew from day one that he was the guy who leaked Plame's identity? If Rove was so innocent, why didn't he just come forward immediately and say "yeah, it was me, but I didn't realize she was undercover"? Did he tell the president it was him? And if so, why didn't the president go public and put this investigation to an end? Or did Rove refuse the president's request and NOT come forward a year ago? And if so, what is he still doing working in the white House?

Perhaps it's legally relevant if Rove "knew" Plame was undercover or not, but it's not relevant in terms of him keeping his job. Rove intentionally outed a CIA agent working on WMD, it is irrelevant whether he did or didn't know if she was an undercover agent. First off, he knew she wasn't THAT public about her identity or there'd have been no need to "out" here - everyone would have known her already.

Can't argue with that. Will this administration ever be called on by the press or the public to live up to their claim that they would restore "honor and dignity" to the White House? They've done nothing but undermine the Constitution whenever it suits them, raid the Treasury on behalf of their already-wealthy cronies, and consistently lie to the American people. They're amoral criminals who've cost the nation hundreds of billions of dollars, thousands of American lives, and our global reputation-- and still all the right-wing can talk about is a seven year-old blowjob. Maybe we are in a sick society. Or at least one where more people should be reading The Twelve Caesars and seeing what happens when the folly and waste of tyrants go ignored.