Frog'd (Rove Death Watch Cont.'d)

Following up on this Hit & Run post, it appears that the president is laying down a gauntlet: Since we'll never agree on the semantic content of my promise to fire the Plame-leaker---you in the liberal media have corrupted the language anyway---if you want to see Rove go, you'd better establish his criminal culpability.

It's not exactly news that bar-lowering is a cultivated Bush administration policy. There was Candidate Bush, who hobbled through the debates with Gore and Kerry with only a few howlers ("you forgot Poland!", "I know Osama bin Laden attacked us!", "internets", and does anyone remember "fuzzy math")---and that was good enough. There's the quasi-official sanctioning of torture and abuse, which is good enough for the Nationalreviewinstapundithughhewitt crowd, just as long as some dictator somewhere in the world treats prisoners even more bestially. There are plenty more examples I'm sure we can all recite like some bizarre catechism. And now there's this: I don't give a shit what soulless scumbags work for me, if I say they're patriots then they're patriots, and you won't be telling me otherwise unless you can convict them of felonies.

Restoring honor and decency to the White House. Restoring honor and decency. Honor and decency. Honoranddecency. Honordecency. honordecency. [A diet cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper to anyone who can spot the tribute to Jeremy--ed.]