Sumbeeyatch.  Clarke pants’d the Bush Administration this week with his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.

Now the Administration's in a big, fat hurry to find some way to hunt him to the ground.

Note the length of time it takes this Administration to react to this week’s testimony; it takes but mere hours for *sshat Cheney to try his case in the court of public opinion on Limbaugh’s program, only hours for Condi to come out and question Clarke’s credibility from inside the cone of silence wherein she resides.

In spite of having three months to review the book, having months to prepare for this, they wait until this week and until the hearing before the 9/11 Commission.

Yeah.  Timing is everything, isn’t it?

So what’s this got to do with Project Frog Walk and the underlying Plame Affair?

Note how long it took before the Bushies got on the stick – it took them hours to go after Joe Wilson after he came out on the yellowcake story.  It took the wheels of justice months to go after the leaker, and we still don’t know the truth.  Who outted Wilson’s wife?

Note the parallel modus operandi?

Hours to attack.

Months of foot dragging.

And in either (and other) cases, no intelligent and effective rebuttal to the truth, only a barrage of character attacks.  In the Plame Affair, not just a character attack but an offensive against collateral parties.  Disgusting.

And now what may be the most egregious part of this mess, from Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo:

(Bear in mind that top White House aides have told the press that the president personally initiated and is directing this campaign against Clarke. Not outside rabble-rousers, not nefarious aides operating on their own account, but the president himself. This is all his doing, according to his own staffers.)

If this the case, we could very well expect to see this same parallel in the Plame Affair; someone at the very highest reaches of the Administration acting out in a fit of malicious pique, demanding retribution against Joe Clark.

Bring it on, bozos; the more crap you sling, the more likely it is the stuff will stick to you.  People this malignant and childish, unrepentant and narrow-minded should be impeached at best, voted out at worst.  May their recent demand for the declassification of Clarke’s previous testimony prove out this parallel – and may it prove with no uncertainty how poorly suited to the White House this Administration has been.

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