The knives are out for Rove

First, there was the WaPo story out last night...

Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.

Which also included mention of the ongoing Fitzgerald investigation(expected to be wrapping up in weeks) who re-interviewed Matt Cooper in light of that "new information" Rove's lawyer sprang on Fitzgerald at the last minute.

Then, today, from Newsweek, we get this...

Nov. 2, 2005 - The conventional wisdom in Washington this week is that Karl Rove is out of the woods. But while an indictment against him in the Valerie Plame leak case is now unlikely, he may be in danger of losing his security clearance.

Certainly, it would be an unwise staffer who would attempt to step between that relationship, but I can't help reading these anonymous leaks regarding Rove's status as people inside the Whitehouse trying to save Bush from himself.

Rove has been the parental hand on the back of the bicycle as Bush has learned how to president. And here we are, five years down the road, and George still doesn't believe he can ride on his own. And all the members in the boy emporer's court are telling him to let go, that he can ride the bike on his own. But he's just too afraid.

This is the truth of the flightsuited war president.