Where is the Presidency Heading
In politics a week they say is a long time. George Bush II must be realising the truth of this cliche' during the course of the past week. First his handpicked nominee for the Supre Court had to withdraw herself from the race as even conservatives were beginning to sak questions about the quality of judicial discretion she possesses. The Democrats quick to draw blood, sought to acquire White House documents during the course of the confirmation hearings. This tactic or ploy is surely unconstitutional but there was very little pritest from the Excecutive Branch. It is stretching the point a bit too much to say that Whiote House i.e. in house madvice given by a counsel should be madfe available to the Judicial hearinngs. It is surely sign of a critically wounded Presidency that George Bush II decided to withdraw his candidate rather than force the issue.
The Karl Rove muck just wont go away. Today CNN's Woolf Blitzer interviewed Ambassador Wilson. I was struck by two points made by Wilson regarging the outing of his wife as a covert CIA operattive. First as a NOC (Non Offivial Cover), Valerie Plam had risked life and limb over two decades of service in order to penetrate the arcane world, a murky one too, of weapons proliferators, suppliers and prospective buyers of WMD. All her hard work was with callous cynical indifference set at rest in order to score a dubious political point. Fritzgerald, the Special Procecutor is right now only looking at the obstruction of justice angle, but he is surely not going to be stonewalled by the White House as American Law has been broken with impunity. Karl Rove may have been more fortunate than Libby, but the matter does not end there. The second point is more serious and pertains to the political use of intelligence assets. Wilson clealy believes that the documents used by the then Secretary of State, Colin Powell, tio make a case for the invasion of Iraq in the United Nations, were forged and the Bush Administration was aware of it. This demonstrates that the intelligence was cooked around the policy and one more proof of the perfidy of the regime occupying the White House.
So we are seeing a mortally wounded Adninistration and with every passing day the approval ratings is going down.