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From Reuters:

"I have instructed every member of my staff to fully cooperate in this investigation. I also will not prejudge the investigation based on media reports," Bush told reporters in response to a question.

[...]

Republicans accused Democrats of mounting a smear campaign against Rove.

"It is just another politically motivated part of their agenda," said Rep. Deborah Pryce, an Ohio Republican.

Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, the third ranking House Republican, said, "I don't see a significant level of concern" about Rove within Republican ranks.

Okay, listen, I'm not going to put my feet up on the cracker barrel and wax nostalgic -- as though simply being older lends me some sort of authoritative political weight (as opposed to the gravitational kind, of which I have more than enough thank you). And this does risk stating the obvious. But I will say that in nearly 40 years of watching politics, I have never seen people so ethically bankrupt, so unconcerned with reality, so cynically manipulative as the current president -- surely a man as incapable of presiding as can be imagined, by anyone who sufficiently understands English -- and those who declare themselves his allies.

It's appalling that anyone can still say of these weasels anything like (as I still hear from time to time) I have some problems with their policies, but I wouldn't mind having them over for dinner.