The Furious Spinner

Frank Rich has a great piece in the New York Times called "The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan." Ain't it the freaking truth. Karl Rove is at his "finest." Why is that little oink-oink still running things? How did he slip slid his way through the Valerie Plame outing. He's a weasel. (Yes, I realize I am mixing up my animal metaphors. And really, I should leave animals out of it. Weasels aren't bad. Now pigs, they're a different kind of creature. They'll eat anything. Don't get me started.) Rich begins his essay with, "Cindy Sheehan couldn't have picked a more apt date to begin the vigil that ambushed a president: Aug. 6 was the fourth anniversary of that fateful 2001 Crawford vacation day when George W. Bush responded to an intelligence briefing titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States' by going fishing." Next Rich talks about how the Emperor and his fashionista attack dogs (and pig) have gone after Cindy Sheehan. However, he believes their attack has failed this time.

He writes, "When Mr. Bush's motorcade left a grieving mother in the dust to speed on to a fund-raiser, that was one fat-cat party too far. The strategy of fighting a war without shared national sacrifice has at last backfired, just as the strategy of Swift Boating the war's critics has reached its Waterloo before Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury in Washington. The 24/7 cable and Web attack dogs can keep on sliming Cindy Sheehan. The president can keep trying to ration the photos of flag-draped caskets. But this White House no longer has any more control over the insurgency at home than it does over the one in Iraq."

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