Texas, as it turns out, is one of the states with the most Norwegian-Americans. This is strange to most Norwegians - they'd be hard pressed to think of any place more unlike Norway than Texas, and a people more unlike Norwegians than Texans. A person more unlike the Norwegian ideal than Karl Rove.
Christopher Hitchens doesn't think that there's much to the Karl Rove scandal. Look, he says, Rove was right in leaking that Wilson was a weenie. And the law that prohibits someone from blowing a CIA operative's cover is silly. The administration had a weak case for going to war, perhaps, but this whole Karl Rove thing is much ado about nothing.
The Bush administration is now spinning the whole matter around criminal culpability. As if the presidential administration owes the public nothing more than staying on the right side of the law.
Everyone knows that Bush without Rove is like, well, the space shuttle without a single computer on board. It's hardly in the public interest to sever the administration's spinal cord. On the other hand, Bush, the Republicans, and Rove himself deserve to be punished severely for their moral decay.
I mean, what the fuck? Blowing the cover of a spy to get back at her husband?
Karl Rove, it should be remembered, is neither elected nor appointed with the approval of Congress. He's a civil servant serving at the pleasure of the president. He did nothing to earn the public trust; it was granted to him at the discretion of president Bush. The president not only has the right but the obligation to fire and disgrace anyone who abuses that privilege. That is, if “honor” means something at all. It doesn't matter whether Wilson was the biggest loser, his wife a third-rate paper pusher, and that Rove broke no law. What Rove did was inexcusable.
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