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The party that gave us Bill Clinton and his definition of fidelity has now coughed up the venerable Joseph C. Wilson IV, celbutante wannabe. Wilson, of course, is the American attaché who fancies himself a political operative determined to single-handedly bring down the Bush Administration. Someone might want to tell him his scheme just blew up in his face. It appears that Wilson, who cast himself as the year’s biggest martyr, wanted the world to believe that the evil Karl Rove outted his wife, an ersatz clandestine CIA “operative”, in retaliation for Wilson’s ground-breaking Op Ed piece in the New York Times discrediting the administration’s claims that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from the East African country of Niger. That’s the year’s longest run on sentence to describe the year’s biggest con. As it turns out, Wilson’s wife was not a CIA operative when her name was published in an article by Robert Novak and it wasn’t Karl Rove who was the source of this leak. As with all things the hysterical, brain-addled Democrats get their hands on, reputations were ruined, people were jailed, an administration was paralyzed and we had to appoint yet another money-wasting, mind-numbing Special Prosecutor.
The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight rallied behind this unfolding carnage for almost two years. This week John Kerry took to the podium, flanked by Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and other Democratic “luminaries”, and demanded that Karl Rove be fired. Today it was revealed that Karl Rove wasn’t the source of the leak, he was the recipient. One of many. Furthermore, Joe Wilson’s “research” that tried to bury the administration’s claims regarding uranium actually ended up bolstering them. Also, he was not sent on this super secret mission by the Vice President of the United States, as he implied, but by his wife and he admitted yesterday that “[his] wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity”. That means that there was no crime, except the crime of Wilson and his wife trying to dupe the world and the uber-gullible Vanity Fair magazine by painting themselves as quixotic martyrs of the ruthless Republican retaliation machine.
Joseph C. Wilson IV, his wife, Valerie Plame, and everyone else who backed them now look like fools. It appears that Karl Rove has, once again, managed to force the Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot. Lest we forget this is the same Karl Rove that, according to Walter Cronkite, orchestrated Osama Bin Laden’s “October surprise” to insure President Bush’s reelection. It now appears that mastermind Rove has manipulated the entire Congressional Democrat machine, the Main Stream Media, Time Magazine and the New York Times to all, simultaneously, squander what is left of their ever-vanishing credibility.
By taking on Karl Rove the Dems have proven, once again, they are out of their league. Maybe they should go back to scaring poor people and little old ladies. Those are the last people left who are likely to take their word.
