Well I Hope You're Happy

Okay, I really hate to say “I told you so” but, well... I told you so.

You didn’t listen to me the other day when I asked -- quite politely, as I recall -- for everyone to please go easy on poor Presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan, who after all was just trying to do his job... of desperately trying to avoid saying anything that could get him in trouble with his boss.

And because no one listened and because the press continued asking difficult questions and hasn’t stopped insisting on its right to know how the President could possibly justify not firing Rove after he’d clearly stated he’d boot anyone from his administration found to have been responsible for leaking the information... well, because of all that, poor Scott McClellan was forced to trot out in front of a room full of reporters today and make the embarrassing disclosure that he’d had “a little flesh” taken out of him. Then, to make matters worse, Rep. Peter King from New York storms onto the set of “Scarborough Country” and tells Joe Scarborough that because the blood-thirsty sharks in the White House press corps are acting so boorishly, he wants to shoot Tim Russert and the rest of the media.

So I ask you -- are you happy now? You proud of yourselves? Because you people couldn’t stand to be lied to any more and the press couldn’t stop itself (suddenly, miraculously) from asking questions that made the Administration very, very uncomfortable, Scott McClellan probably needs stitches on his back and normally mild-mannered Rep. King (R-NY) has turned into Yosemite Sam.

By the way, came across this interesting paragraph from Human Events Online, authored by that rootin'-est, tootin'-est Republican cowboy himself, Rep. Peter King, back on Oct. 3, 2003:

“The current furor over who, if anyone, in the White House leaked anything about Joe Wilson's wife and whether that leak, if it occurred, constitutes a crime is off the mark.

My concern is about something far more ominous. It is what I see to be a systematic pattern of conduct being carried out by elements within the Central Intelligence Agency constituting a virtual covert operation against the Bush White House -- a covert operation designed to protect the spy agency’s turf and deflect charges of incompetence.

All the elements are in place: repeated leaks of selective classified information and tawdry political use of pre-war intelligence.”

Hmm, leaks of classified information, tawdry political use of pre-war intelligence. You know, if you close your eyes and think really, really hard, it almost sounds like he’s talking about Karl Rove.

I just hope you’re all happy.