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Bush's White House in Turmoil

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 10:55:15 AM EST
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As Buzzflash writes,

Holy Batman! The Mainstream Press is Even Sounding Grim on the Busheviks, "Dark days: Singed by the special prosecutor and rattled by the Harriet Miers mess, Team Bush is in turmoil."

There is a huge sea change going on in the MSM. Check out Newsweek's Flying Blind and The TimeonLine article Bush Got Whacked. The Washington Post features a similar article and notes that Bush's approval ratings are at the lowest of his presidency.

Michael Isikoff writes in Newsweek (as I speculated most recently yesterday) that Novak's source cooperated with Fitzgerald and got a pass.

One lawyer involved in the case who declined to be identified because of the matter's confidentiality said Novak decided "early on" to cooperate with Fitzgerald's probe and ID his source—whom Fitzgerald never charged, apparently because the mystery leaker told the truth to the grand jury.

Isn't that a fancy way of saying Fitzgerald gave Novak's source immunity from prosecution in exchange for this truthful testimony? Again, when do we find out who else made these deals?

Journalists also are jumping on Cheney and Rove. Andrew Sullivan, writing in the Sunday TimesonLine, says Cheney's not out of the woods.

Nicholas Kristof says Cheney must be candid or resign. Lawrence O'Donnell over at HuffPo calls Rove a cancer on the presidency and writes Rove must resign or Bush's presidency will never get back on track.

[hat tip for to Patriot Daily for many of the news tips.]

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