A Choice For Republicans - BUSH OR AMERICA?

Not only is Karl Rove in deep doo doo (as you will see from remarks by John Dean in this piece), but so are Republicans if they don't wake up soon. In an opinion piece for Yahoo News, Ted Rall writes "Karl Rove is loyal to President Bush," a correspondent wrote as Treasongate broke. "Isn't that a form of patriotism?" Not in a representative democracy, I replied. Only in a dictatorship is fealty to the Leader equal to loyalty to the nation. We're Bush's boss. He works for us. Unless that changed on 9/11 (or 12/20/00). Rove had no right to give away state secrets, even to protect Bush [snip] Rove may avoid prosecution under the Intelligence Identities and Protection Act, says John Dean, counsel at the Nixon White House. "There is, however, evidence suggesting that other laws were violated," he says, alluding to Title 18, Section 641 of the U.S. Code. The "leak of sensitive [government] information" for personal purposes--say, outing the CIA wife of your boss' enemy--is "a very serious crime," according to the judge presiding over a similar recent case. If convicted under the anti-leak statute, Rove would face ten years in a federal prison. Even if Rove originally learned about Plame's status from jailed New York Times journalist Judith Miller, Dean continues, "it could make for some interesting pairing under the federal conspiracy statute (which was the statute most commonly employed during Watergate)." Conspiracy will get you five years at Hotel Graybar. As Rall so aptly put in his opinion piece, it is time for Republicans to realize they represent more than the Republican Party or loyalty to George Bush. They are there to serve all the people of the US. If they don't recognize this soon, they will be discredited forever. Now it looks as if they are going to try using the announcement of King George's pick for a SCOTUS nominee to deflect attention away from Rove and his treasonous act. Hopefully now that the press has awakened, they won't fall for this blatant move. You can read the entire opion piece by Ted Rall HERE.....