For the politically naive and innocent among you

[bluestateguy]

I'm getting very worried that DU is falling into the same "Bush is toast" trap that it has fallen into many times over the last 5 years: the Downing Street Memo, Gannon/Guckert, the August 6th PDB, and God only knows how many other scandals and smoking guns that never materialized and then receded back into the darkest corners of the internet. Sometimes the corporate media got bored with the stories, the other side launched a ferocious counter-attack or Karl Rove made a few phone calls and made the whole thing go away.

If Fitzgerald walks away from this investigation with nothing, the gloating from the other side will be nauseating. Five years of this bullshit has taught me to assume that the Bush team can get away with anything they want to.

There are powerful people in Washington, in Texas and all over the nation who will do anything, ANYTHING to protect their little Baby Bush. Bush to them is like a little child, but a child desperately in need of protection by grownups. They believe he was chosen by God, and that to criticize him is to sin against God. This case could play out exactly the same way.