To snigger and snigger not
I have determined that the best I can do to shine light on the Wilson/Novak mess is to offer a scandal name, "Revenge of Yellowcake," and recommend that you go to
talkingpointsmemo now. Josh Marshall has nailed this thing six ways to Sunday, whatever the heck that means.
Marshall points out that the administration conducted a search of phone records recently in an attempt to nail Wesley Clark. Why not peruse them again to check the week before Novack released his column? Maybe check Karl Rove's logs? We could clear this whole thing up in no time.
I will also propose a benchmark, an indicator if you will, to delineate the exact point at which the Bush administration becomes toast: when a White House spokesman utters something like this "That is not the way this White House operates, and no one would be authorized to do such a thing" (as Scott McClellan did concerning the Revenge of Yellowcake) and elicits loud, comfortable sniggers from the press corps.
I mean, could anyone who knows anything about this administration's relationship to Fox News, Tom DeLay, John Ashcroft, Max Cleland, Dana Milbank, France, Germany, or Mexico, the Florida recount, its smearing of dozens of political opponents for criticism of the war, (I could go on and on) do anything but snigger at a statement like this -- unless they feared retaliation? I think not. So, when the press corps knows in its bones that Bush is gone, it will go a-sniggering. And we will know.
