Tuesday, June 13, 2006
The Note: What to look for now
Not surprisingly, this morning's Note is chock full o' useful snark:
What to look for now:
1. The President stepping out of his gloat-free-zone the next time he meets with reporters, perhaps on his surprise trip to Iraq.
2. The White House otherwise, however, refusing to get into the details, with the Libby trail pending, putting David Gregory in high dudgeon.
3. Democrats turning to the questions of what Rove might have done that was unethical or tawdry, if not indictable.
4. Charlie Rose — fresh off last night's return to the air and surprise party filled with Gang-o'-500 guests galore — interviewing Richard Armitage, the man who tout le Washington believes was Bob Woodward's source on Plame (and probably Novak's too). That exclusive interview occurs this very day. And you won't believe how foxy and healthy Charlie looks.
5. The lefty bloggers to go nuts.
6. The RNC to trot out all the we-have-trust-in-Pat-Fitzgerald quotes from Democrats over the last many months.
7. The DNC to hype this: "A rule designed by the Environmental Protection Agency to keep groundwater clean near oil drilling sites and other construction zones was loosened after White House officials rejected it amid complaints by energy companies that it was too restrictive and after a well-connected Texas oil executive appealed to White House senior advisor Karl Rove," as reported by the Los Angeles Times' Hamburger and Wallsten.
8. Poor Randall Samborn having to say "no comment" over 11,000 times today.
9. Rove's first TV interview in some time....
Items 2, 3, 5 and 6 are slam dunks.
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