This is delicious. The RoveHo behind ILoveKarlRove.com has some advice for the women who love the Men Who Are About to Be Indicted:
It just cracks my fragile heart to imagine what Mrs. DeLay is going through at home, her once-full toolbox now without its hefty Hammer. Sure, he's been released from the state's hospitality pending trial for campaign money-laundering, but freedom has its price. Ten thousand dollars bail is still a Texas-size chunk of change, even if you're, oh, say, a former Senate majority leader's wife and daughter who have reportedly earned half a million dollars working for a political organization somewhat (ahem) close to home. And keep in mind all the long, hard, prison-widowed nights in front of the Home Shopping Network that are looming overhead, all Damoclesian.
Hubby Tom might be snoozing comfily in the Barcalounger right now, but should justice's hammer not swing his way come trial time, quite likely the hand gently cradling his family assets will not be his own, nor so very gentle. And that's a heck of a load to expect one's godly ex-cheer-squad wife to have to swallow!
Still, appearances must be kept up, pantsuits pressed, coifs Aqua-Netted, and mood-stabilizers popped. In this age of unnervingly instant access, every bloggerista with a cable modem and a camera phone thinks he's Edward R. Gosh-Darned Murrow, and he's sure to broadcast every last split acrylic end and stray courthouse-steps divorce threat for the schadenfreude of the whole lumpen cyberverse. Not to mention that with the advent of print-on-demand services like Cafepress, tomorrow evening's medicinal toddy will likely be sipped from a mug emblazoned with this afternoon's mug shot.
It's surely enough to send a girl tumbling into the Valley of the Kitty Dukakis, but before you hoist that fistful of Vicodin, honey, know that you are not alone. As long as there has been an America to govern, there have been political wives with one supportive hand on their husbands' shoulder and the other on speed dial to her divorce attorney.
Are you listening, Mrs. Frist?
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- 171899
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Looks like Rove won't get hit today. From CNN Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe, plans to ask a grand jury to indict Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, a lawyer involved in the case told CNN today. President Bush's top political strategist Karl Rove will not be indicted today, but is not out of legal jeopardy, according to sources. Fitzgerald is expected to hold a news conference at 2 p.m.
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- Rex
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- 2005-10-28T09:59:25-06:00
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- 171900
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You'd think they'd get Scooter, and then get him to squeak on the others. It would be a huge surprise if they all went down the same day.
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- ladd
- Date
- 2005-10-28T10:08:22-06:00
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- 171901
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I, personally, NEED ROVE TO GO DOWN. Scooter's indictment is nice, but Christ, he's a GROWN MAN named "Scooter". He deserves a little jail time on that fact alone. Hanging on until the press conference at 2pm. I might actually be PRAYING for the first time in years. Its amazing what will bring you back to the Lord, ain't it? ;)
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- Lori G
- Date
- 2005-10-28T10:16:04-06:00
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