” If you were the wagering type…”
Oct 28th, 2005 | by Neil Barton | Posted in politics | Comments Off
From my favorite political source, ABC’s The Note comes this nice summary of the coming political events today:
If you were the wagering type, you would bet that by the time the sun sets tonight over the Potomac River:
Scooter Libby will have been indicted; Karl Rove’s future will seem at once more secure and less so; the world will finally know what Patrick Fitzgerald’s voice sounds like; a new or extended grand jury of an indeterminate life span will be a very big Gang of 500 preoccupation; discussions of the pros, cons, and possibilities of a plea deal will have filled hours and hours of cable news time and many blog column inches; a fresh batch of pieces about the nature of second-term slides will be sketched out and assigned; Trent Lott’s prediction about how long it will have taken people to forget Harriet Miers will turn out to have been understated; and at least one office in Northwest Washington will have been cleaned out.
Stuff not clear enough at this writing to bet on: will there be other X Factor indictments announced today; how politically combustible will the narrative of any indictments be; when will the next POTUS/VPOTUS joint appearance be, and what tone will the White House strike regarding Rove?
