OH, THE NERVE OF PATRICK FITZGERALD

JITTERS AND JAGS The White House is nervous about Patrick Fitzgerald and the Plame grand jury [story]

Jittery Bush aides gnawed their nails yesterday as a special prosecutor zeroed in on White House political guru Karl Rove's role in blowing a CIA agent's cover.

THE HERETIK NOTES the White House is not alone.  Who isn’t ready for this “Fitzmas” to be “over?”  And then it really just starts. Oy.  Shakespeare’s Sister asked The Heretik three weeks ago when we would see indictments.  And the answer was October 28, the last day of the grand jury’s term.  The feeling was and is Fitzgerald would use every “last minute” (and then the minute after that) to get as much as he could out of the process.  Yesterday The Heretik jumped on the bandwagon of those jumping for something, anything, to happen.  Like now, dude.

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[Jane Hamsher/ Firedog Lake] Doesn't sound like anybody needs to be setting their alarm clocks early tomorrow morning.

EVEN SCOTT McLELLAN CAN BE RIGHT ONCE [WaPo] You know it's a screwy week in Washington when presidential spokesman Scott McClellan so perfectly sums up the gestalt of the town -- albeit in that banal, totally unrevealing way of his:

"There's a lot of speculation going around," McClellan said in his White House briefing yesterday. "And I think there are a lot of facts that are not known at this point."

THE HERETIK KNOWS ONCE Fitzgerald is done some people will be wishing things had remained banal,  Scott McLellan among them.

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“A LIKELY SCENARIO" [Judd/ Think Progress]

MIKE ALLEN: A lot of activity happening that we’re not seeing. A likely scenario for what happened today, Patrick Fitzgerald got some indictments from this grand jury. He is now able to go to the…

CHRIS MATTHEWS: You think they’re sealed right now?

MIKE ALLEN: Very possible. What I’m told is typically, in a case like this, he could get the indictments and now he can go to the targets and say, you can plead to these or I’ll go back Friday and get more. You have 12 to 24 hours to think about it.

THE HERETIK DECLARES all speculation will now end.  Until it begins again. 

BREAKING NEWS is no news for now [Reuters] "There are no announcements expected today," said Randall Samborn, Fitzgerald's spokesman.

THE HERETIK SEES speculation starting up again, as those who speculate continuing speculating on others who speculate.  The speculation is the speculation cannot be stopped, even after Fitzgerald does. Oy.




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Comments

[Fred]

I'm fricken' frothing at the mouth for this to be over/just begun. It's like pulling the plug on your tub, and the waters making noise like it's draining, but its still got the same amount of water in there.

[The Heretik]

Yeah, Fred, I think we all have that gurgling sound in our ears. Oy.

[libby]

I'm with you guys. Let the Fitzquisition begin. I can hardly stand the suspense.

[Carol]

Please, please PLEASE will someone step in, and establish some leadership here? The timing is so perfect. Please, Dems, (Hilary Clinton - are you listening? Governor Dean? Do we have any potential leaders out there?) this time round we need LEADERSHIP.