Let’s imagine for the moment that Ambassador Wilson is all the things the LockStep Brigade claim and that the outing of a CIA agent (and all the people who’ve ever met or worked with her by extension) is no big deal to anybody but whiny left-wing pacifists.

These two things still would be true.

1. Karl Rove (and Scooter Libby, apparently) both did something they understood to be wrong. Come on, you don’t think that “Joe Wilson’s wife” was specifically identifiable? How many wives do you have?

If they didn’t understand it to be wrong when they did it, they certainly understood it to be wrong when President Bush said he’d fire the leaker if they were in his administration. (BTW, what the hell good is a White House or Chief Executive that can’t ferret out leaks from within the West Wing and Vice Presidential Suite? As numerous people pointed out, President Nixon had figured out Deep Throat was Mark Felt, but thought it too dangerous to publically accuse him. If the Bushies can’t do better than that they’re an active danger to the security of America without regard to any other actions.)

2. Let’s go back to that statement of President Bush’s. Karl Rove and Scooter Libby are still reporting for work when they’ve been established as the leakers who were supposedly going to be fired. Why are we still waiting for this good ol’ boy to understand that when you make a promise like that, people expect you to keep your word?

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