Roll over, Rover

"I think the way to be most helpful is to not get into commenting on it while it is an ongoing investigation." Thank you, Scott McClellan, mouthpiece of the mouthpiece of the Cheney administration.

And while we're refusing to comment on our refusal to comment on the leak from the elliptical office itself, let's make this a perpetually ongoing investigation, you know, kind of like the perpetual war President Cheney and his dog Rover started, so that the Enabling Act (oops, that was 1933) I mean Patriot Act, suspending the Constitution, can become a permanent fixture of nouveau fascism. But the white house can't comment on that either, because there's an ongoing investigation into it, which makes us all feel safe.

Safe knowing that the epicenter of policy making in Washington blew the cover of its own espionage agent in a fit of retaliation against another agent whose investigation into Iraqi weapons came up with the wrong conclusion, i.e. NOT the information Rover wanted. So let's take a break, Rover. Resign now for personal reasons, let's say, to spend more time with your family, or something cute and adorable that will play well with your base.

But I wouldn't expect Bush to "fire" his boss any more than I would fire Terry McGraw or Derek Jeter would fire George Steinbrenner. I'm picturing Cheney deep in the bowels of his life-support system, tick, tick, tick, confidently biding his time until all this blows over, telling whoever objects to to go f*#k himself. While upstairs in the briefing room, press secretary McClellan says it would be more helpful to not comment.