Rove carefully orchestrating his own demise!

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Knowing he is either guilty of leaking, leading a conspiracy to leap, and masterminding a cover-up, not to mention perjury in the Plame case, or that he will be so damaged that he'll have to leave the administration, Rove is masterfully manipulating the story to do as little political damage as possible and to stay on as long as possible. Getting Roberts on the front-burner as fast as he and W. did was a way to bury the story for a time. Unless other facts, memos, leaks about leaking come forward, the story won't re-emerge until the prosecutor's indictments or report. The Friday before that action, Rove can quietly clean out his drawers before the afternoon announcement.

Ironically, the methods that brought him to fame, too injudiciously applied brought him down. Now he uses them to prolong and fashion his departure.

What can change this? Little, it seems, without new facts coming to light.

What do you think?