an intresting note on the plame game

Something intresting the Christian Science Monitor wrote on the Plame issue

For the mainstream Washington media, which have faced criticism for appearing to go easy on the Bush White House, the new link to Rove provided a hook on which to hang tough questions. "Since it involves the media themselves, it's natural that the media would have a strong interest," says Professor Pitney. "For the time being," he adds, "there's an absence of competing political stories. We don't have a Supreme Court nominee, and the middle of summer is generally not a time for major legislation."

So the Insane ramblings that passed for a press confrence was an absence of competing political stories Ok... here is a thought, I know it may be wild but MAYBE the media should try and focus on other stories

Like the government spending money like a crack head? Hey that's a story
or
The Illegal Immigration problem, especially with non-latin Americans now gunning the border. hey there is another political story
or
How several of the "divisive" judges in the gang of 14 deal were voted for by people who called them divisive

Oh.. wait you mean a Political story that is all packaged. Yes that is it because then what would the press corp do... WORK

So in the interest of filling media time and space, Democrats are more than happy to oblige. And because of the Plame case's ultimate link to the run-up to the Iraq war - and her husband's role in raising questions about Iraq's efforts to acquire materials for use in nuclear weapons - Democrats now have a reason to revisit their core allegation about a White House they view as less than forthcoming on Iraq.

and again... no bias in the media

no none at all. So the plame game is being played because the democrats need a way to attack bush on Iraq while having voted for the war on Iraq

but the most devlish thing in this whole CSM article

"If anything, the attacks by Democrats could enhance [Rove's] stature with the people he deals with," says Jack Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont-McKenna College in Claremont, Calif.

Nothing like the partisan toxic culture in washington

aint it grand