Miers is Bush's "Get Out of Jail Free" Card

Plamegate sleuths think 3 top Busheviks could be indicted for conspiring to out Valerie Plame: Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and Stephen Hadley.

But Dick Cheney and Karl Rove may also have conspired against Plame. And Harvey Wasserman says that could put them in Deep Voodoo:

the labyrinthian complications of the Plame case multiply the odds overshadowing any simple case against any single individual from the White House. But conspiracy would be a different story. It would seem patently obvious that outing Plame had to have been discussed in some form by the very top of the Bush junta.

That Bush himself knew Plame was a CIA agent has long since been established. That Libby, Rove and Cheney knew is also beyond doubt. So how the knowledge of Plame's status somehow leapt to the ears of columnist Robert Novak and the likes of Judith Miller may be more important than the outing itself. If Bush, Cheney, Rove and Libby did discuss such a retaliation, and then found a way to make it happen, we are suddenly out of the playoffs and into the World Series.

In Watergate, the coverup became the crime of importance. In Iran-Contra, it was who knew what when. In the Plame case, it could well be who discussed what with whom when. Whatever the call, this case is certain to end at the US Supreme Court. And here we may or may not find Harriet Miers...

if ever there were a Supreme Court nominee who is a sure bet to put personal and partisan loyalty above the law, it is Harriet Miers. If ever George W. Bush comes in front of her with a case concerning conspiracy or some other violation of the law, we all know how she will vote.

That's why Bush chose her. That's why the Senate must reject her.

Tell your Senator: Reject Harriet Miers.

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The Republicans Come Tumbling Down

NOTHING would make me happier than to see these people get just what they deserve!!

'it's all in the eyes'...

John Roberts - 'freaky eyes'

Harriett Miers - 'eyeliner eyes'...

what's up with that??

These (2) Bush picks could be the 'worst Justices' the U.S. could ever have...

there has to be something 'odd and creepy'...about these 2.

That makes

the resident in the White House the biggest CREEP of all.

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