the problem with karl is

from the comments:

oldschool has a 911 question for damien about planes and transponders and stuff

damien demonstrates his encyclopaedic knowledge in the answer

my dear friend (and future swedish pm whatever she wants to be) moa weighs in:

"What say you lukery, was this a smart move by bush, will rove in his new position 'save' the republicans in the election you think?

seems to me like bush is blaming the press for mccclellans resignation... 'the way the press treated him' and so on..."

firstly, i don't think there is any such thing as a 'smart move by bush'. secondly, if i was tory clark, or tony snow, or dan senor, i'd be making sure that i was out of cell-phone range for the next few weeks. whoever takes that job will have a shorter honeymoon than ned flanders & homer did when they went to vegas.

the big question is karl rove - my *guess* (which i'm having trouble separating from 'hope') is that Rove's demotion today is stage one of his exit strategy. it was typical rove that he hid under scotty's skirt today - i wouldnt be surprised to see him in the news again in the next couple of weeks - perhaps shedding another title, or admitting to some minor crime or some such - and then we'll hopefully see him in handcuffs by the end of may, perhaps sooner. if i'm not mistaken (or overly hopeful), karl will try to manage the indictment so that there'll be some background 'noise' for a few weeks so that by the time the indictments hit, the message will have been diluted - 'old news' as it were.

the problem with karl is that i wouldnt be surprised if he decides to nuke iran the day before he gets indicted so that the indictment doesnt hit the headlines.

in other news, last week i said that larisa was going to bring out a new article on ghorbanifar - turns out i was a week early. look for that thurs morn.