New Role for Rove

* EW takes a look at Libby's subpoenas to the NYT- it turns out that Judy Judy can't find one of her notebooks, again.

* emptywheel:

"Contrary to what you might think, me being a Plame blogger and all, I actually think the NH phone-jamming and the Tom Noe coin giveaway might have a greater impact on the Republicans than the Plame scandal (Abramoff is another thing, but we can come back to that). The Plame Affair, bad as it is, involves the behavior of several individuals in the Administration--perhaps as much as a dozen, but all individuals...
But both the NH and OH cases go right to the heart of Republican tactics. They are tied to the Republican party institutionally, rather than just personally...
I guess my point being, the election is just a secondary thing to the scandals and legal troubles at this point."

* cnn: "McClellan resigns, New Role for Rove"

* Fox: ""McClellan resigns, Rove moves from policy to politics"

* john Gibson on FNC: is there some illegal about generals criticising Rumsfeld?

* josh:

"In all seriousness, I think the real story here continues to be that things are so bad at the White House, the level of denial and secrets to be kept, the self-bamboozlement and bad-faith so profound, that they just can't manage to bring in any new blood.

With Rumsfeld, or any other cabinet secretary, there's a related problem -- the importance of which has, I think, not been fully appreciated or aired. If Rumsfeld goes, you need to nominate someone else and get them through a senate confirmation. That means an open airing of the disaster of this administration's national security policy. Every particular; all about Iraq. Think how much they don't want that ...

Finally, can they find anyone on the outside who wants in? This, remember, seems to be the problem with Treasury Secretary Snow. He has already, in essence, been fired. But they can't come up with anyone crazy enough to take the job."