Duh of the Day

Rove Had Heavier Hand in Prosecutor Firings Than Previously Known.

I can't even imagine how many words I wrote about this shit two years ago, including post after post about the White House email and nongovernmental emails being used by White House staffers. I'm very curious to know if the newly uncovered emails are official government accounts and whether they were properly archived (unlikely) or a violation of the Presidential Records Act (likely).

Almost two and a half years ago, Sidney Blumenthal penned: "All roads lead to Rove: The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise."

It's not that Rove's neck-deep involvement wasn't known previously; it's that the proof hadn't been handed to mainstream media outlets on a silver platter. But anyone who was paying the slightest modicum of attention knew. And we waited with bated breath for the truth to come, for the MSM to do its fucking job, for Congress to do its fucking job, for someone with some power to do the right goddamned thing with some urgency befitting a White House scandal.

That never happened.

It's outrageous the amount of time it's taken to get to this point. And even now, there's still no assurance of justice.

The outrage has faded. The energy and passion of most of the people who used to vigorously demand answers has waned. The attention span of the public is far too short to still care. All momentum has diminished.

Someone more cynical than I, ahem, might suggest that was precisely the plan all along.