Obvious Phrase Linking
A Google search for the two phrases "karl rove" "what is is" yields about 590 hits. I knew that I was not trendy.
The Communists at the Associated Press aren't letting up:
President Bush qualified his pledge to dismiss any White House official found to have leaked the name of a CIA operative, saying Monday that "if someone committed a crime" he would be fired.
In September 2003, the White House had said anyone who leaked classified information in the case would be dismissed. Bush reiterated that promise last June, saying he would fire anyone found to have disclosed the CIA officer's name....
The president, in an East Room news conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said there was a "serious ongoing investigation."
"I think it's best that people wait until the investigation is complete before you jump to conclusions. And I will do so, as well," he said. "I don't know all the facts. I want to know all the facts."
Rove's involvement in the leak case has worried Republicans, already anxious about Bush's decline in opinion polls. Only a fourth of Americans believe the White House is fully cooperating with the investigation, according to an ABC News poll released Monday. That number has dropped from half in September 2003 when the probe began....
Said Bush on Monday, "I would like this to end as quickly as possible so we know the facts, and if someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration."
The phrasing was unusual for the president, who campaigned for office in 2000 on a pledge "to restore honor and dignity" to a White House he implied had been sullied by scandals of the Clinton administration.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan would not say whether Bush meant an indictment or a conviction when he referred to a crime, or whether he considered leaking itself to be a crime. Nor would McClellan acknowledge that the president created a standard different from previous statements out of the White House.
"I think that the president was stating what is obvious when it comes to people who work in the administration: that if someone commits a crime, they're not going to be working any longer in this administration," McClellan said....
Karl Rove still has some support:
John Gibson's My Word segment on Tuesday 7/12/05 really got my attention when he began with "I say give Karl Rove a medal, even if Bush has to fire him."
Here's the rant:
Why? Because Valerie Plame should have been outed by somebody. And nobody else had the cojones to do it, I'm glad Rove did, if he did do it, and he still says he didn't.
And Nixon also supported MacArthur when he disobeyed Truman's orders. (Don't know what Nixon would have done if MacArthur had done this in Nixon's administration.)
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