professorbainbridge

* professorbainbridge (wingnut) : "I have not closely followed the Valerie Plame affair, but with it heating up again I am genuinely curious about something. Assume arguendo that somebody in the White House outed Plame as a CIA agent. Why would they have done that? What political advantage did they think they stood to gain by doing so? How would it have discredited Joe Wilson or otherwise shut him up? I honestly don't get it." (link)
indeed. its incredible (kinda) that the wingnuts havent been interested in l'affaire plame.

* mark kleinman offers a couple of possible answers for the Professor - neither which is particularly satisfactory.

* there is something totally surreal about the media coverage of Blinky's "Q&A with soldiers". froomkin has a good summary. its almost as though the media are pretending they didnt know this sort of thing happens every day - even though they participate in it all the time. its astonishing. im not sure if the media is just piling on because Blinky's ratings are sub 40, and his impeachment numbers are 50% - or if its the old 'a picture speaks a 1000 words' thing. if its the latter, then the administration is gonna be in all sorts of trouble when (?) the Abu Darby pix get released next week.

* josh marshall: " Has Miers appeared before the Fitzgerald grand jury? Has she been asked whether she's appeared before the Fitzgerald grand jury?" (link)

* americablog doubled its traffic last month. incredible. and congratulations. i knew them before their notgannon fame :-) (link)

* bagnews: "Just like the U.N. bathroom memo incident revealed a couple weeks ago, the evidence continues to pile up that Bush is only as good as what the last person told him to do or say. (My theory, by the way, is that the Harriet Miers situation exemplifies what happens in the occasional instance in which Bush keeps his own counsel.)" (link)

* "Rove would not comment after spending 4 1/2 hours at the federal courthouse... People close to the case said Rove's unusually lengthy grand jury appearance on Friday suggested prosecutors closely scrutinized his earlier testimony, asked him to explain any inconsistencies and may have confronted him with additional information.
"Being in there that long after testifying three times before can't be viewed as a particularly positive sign," said a legal source in the case." (link)

* "Conversations with nearly a dozen Times reporters revealed a scarred landscape of discontent. Few reporters were willing to go on the record, but none who spoke with RAW STORY said they supported Miller. Many voiced worries that the paper’s editor, Bill Keller, was sacrificing his own integrity to protect her... At least two reporters say they’ve heard that Miller plans to resign after the paper runs their examination, which many expect Sunday." (link)