Friday, July 15, 2005

Leak or the lie, Wilson gets leveled

If Joe Wilson is complaining that the White House tried to ruin him by outing his wife, he probably figures he’ll give them another chance to do the job right.

Wilson is now vocally complaining...aligning himself with Democratic senators...and playing right in to the Republican strategy to fight this latest Karl gate.

Check this out from a July 13 article in the Washington Post:

"The emerging GOP strategy -- devised by Mehlman and other Rove loyalists outside of the White House -- is to try to undermine those Democrats calling for Rove's ouster, play down Rove's role and wait for President Bush's forthcoming Supreme Court selection to drown out the controversy, according to several high-level Republicans.

Mehlman, who said he talked with Rove several times in recent days, instructed GOP legislators, lobbyists and state officials to accuse
Democrats of dirty politics and argue Rove was guilty of nothing more than dis-couraging a reporter from writing an inaccurate story, according to RNC talking points circulated yesterday."
The circular nature of this whole story is so ridiculous. It started, supposedly, when the Republicans were trying to discredit Wilson for crossing them. Now it ends with the Republicans using the same tactics of which they are originally accused while they are denying it.

The White House can't comment about comments they made about an investigation that they shouldn't have commented on originally.

And now Joe Wilson is being destroyed the way the Republicans should have probably done it the first time.

Meanwhile in the rest of America....who won Dancing with the Stars?