Alternative title: The Grinch Who Stole Fitzmas
It’s a sign of our times perhaps, that White House Deputy Chief of Staff and chief presidential political advisor Karl Rove can – almost uniquely in human experience – get a phone call from a Special Prosecutor’s office and have it be good news:
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has told White House aide Karl Rove that he does not expect to seek charges against him in connection with the CIA leak case, Rove’s lawyer said today.
In a statement this morning, Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney, said that Fitzgerald “has formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges” against Rove.
“In deference to the pending case, we will not make any further public statements about the subject matter of the investigation,” Luskin said in the statement. “We believe that the Special Counsel’s decision should put an end to the baseless speculation about Mr. Rove’s conduct.”
It’s no sand off my niblick either way, of course. Players at that level are in a dangerous game with potentially serious consequences all the way around, but as much as anything else they’re in it for the love of the game. Still, it makes some folks happy and other folks less so, and it is kind of fun to see which are which.
(H/T to Jeff for the links)
Speaking of Frog Marches and being let off the hook, the (jg) has been sitting on deck in his unbalanced F-18 for quite some time. My guess is he is running out of piddle packs. Is there any hope in sight for him?
Dave
I was wondering who was going to be first. I had money on you
What, exactly, is a niblick?
Now that you are rich from your bet, you can buy more crayons to continue the march.
Dave
A nine-iron, Babs. Or summat like a 9-iron, back in the way-back-when. Helpful for playing out of the rough, or… sand.
Babs, a niblick is a golf club a pitching/sand wedge to be specific.. ergo the “no sand off my niblick” comment from the Lexter.The name harkens back to that long ago time when clubs had seperate names and not numbers. Best
I’m on the ‘less than happy’ camp. I’m not a liberal, but I am disappointed that Rove escaped prosecution once again. He’s been escaping since the Nixon administration. Literally.
Oh, I had never heard of a niblick either…but me and golf don’t go together well.
Gee, too bad that it’s a golf club… I thought it was a naughty bit of Lex’s anatomy and was imagining that it might smart to get sand on your niblick!
Babs – oh, no you didn’t…
Niblicks aside, your post (and the Rove disposition) makes me wonder: What is the opposite of schadenfreude?
Wikipedia: “In Buddhism, the concept of mudita, “sympathetic joy” or “happiness in another’s good fortune”, is often explained as “the opposite of schadenfreude”.
But this doesn’t seem right. Wouldn’t the opposite be “sorrow due to another’s good fortune”? And is there a word for it?
Maybe not niblicks aside, since we’re getting all etymological and whatnot.
Keep that stuff up Babs, and next thing you know we’ll have were-kittens and such in the place, purring and swishing and whatnot.
I don’t actually mind the swishing so much. It’s the hair balls, that I find off-putting.