Heat is on Rove

When Bush denied that anyone in his administration leaked the name of a covert CIA operative to the media, it turned out not to be true. Now he has to save face, so he's enlisting the help of his friends to try to cover it up. Sounds like a soap opera to me. In fact, I think it could be a very successful soap opera. It should be called "Desperate Politicians."\nAll the ingredients are there. You have a retired diplomat with his hot, blonde, secret agent wife. There's the president who has a tendency to make bad decisions and compulsively tries to lie about them. Don't forget the liberal media, that tends to misreport facts if it can make the president look bad. All of these different characters gossip about each other all the time.\nYou just need to add half a dozen skinny women with generous cleavage, who all have affairs with scores of stressed out politicians and you have a sure-fire Emmy-winner on your hands!\nFor the last two seasons of "Desperate Politicians," Bush gave his assurance to the media that no one in his administration leaked the name of the hot blonde spy, Valerie Plame, to the press. But everything is about to change in this week's episode, when Bush must explain why one of the leaks turned out to be his right-hand man, Karl Rove!\nQuickly, Bush and his team worked out a cover story; someone else talked to Rove about it first. But now, Rove has temporary amnesia, so he can't remember who this mystery person was. However, if someone else talked to the mystery person -- a journalist, perhaps -- they should be forced to reveal this mystery person or face jail time. Brilliant!\nJust to cover all the bases, they also had their friends tell the press that the retired diplomat, Joseph Wilson, is a liar.\nBut Bush worked so long and hard to keep the team coordinated, the stress started taking its toll on him. By the end of the episode, Laura walked in on him having an affair with an intern in the oval office.\nOK, so the last part is a bit contrived. But hey, cut me some slack. Do you really think "Desperate Housewives" doesn't recycle material from old shows we haven't already seen a million times?\nGetting back to my point: The administration is making childish efforts to cover its tracks instead of accepting responsibility. If it is true that someone leaked the name of Plame before Rove and Libby did, the administration should have testified to the grand jury before the finger of blame was pointed at them. It's too late for us to trust them now.\nThe administration originally brought up Plame in their conversations with the media as an attempt to discredit Wilson. They "planted" the information. Even now, after it's blown up in their face, the administration still feels compelled to call Wilson a liar, and it only makes them look desperate. If they want to keep this up, maybe they should move to Hollywood and consider a job in television.