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[petermarcus]

Political conspiracy theory I just came up with.

The Plame source is actually a Democrat, but Karl Rove leaked his own name to get liberals drooling. When the truth comes out, Rove will have made a bunch of liberal columnists and lawmakers look very, very foolish, right before a Supreme Court battle.



Okay, probably not likely, but it would make a good political thriller.

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[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

The rumormill that I have heard from various columnists says that when Rehnquist finally retires (any minute now), Bush is going to bring in someone new for chief, instead of elevating someone who is there already. That's happened quite a few times historically, so I can see it, though it would be an interesting conservative move to elevate Thomas, who is not only black but young.

Personally, I think he's going to do Gonzales to replace O'Connor, because the conservatives hate him, and he's a good friend. Then, when Rehnquist does retire, he'll nominate another Thomas or Scalia. I'm sure there will be a lot of political give and take, but if Gonzales gets nominated first, he'll take a lot of heat away from Bush when it comes to nominating extremists.