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The plot thickens in the strange tale of the paleo-Catholic, gay-baiting, Rove-hating Bush administration nemesis and appointee, Scott Bloch , who heads the Office of Special Counsel. We recently learned from the Associated Press (AP) that shortly after the departure of Karl Rove from the White House, a task force for an investigation launched by Bloch stood poised to request documents from the Justice Department, only to have Bloch shut down the probe. The investigation was focused on the possible political use of federal prosecutors to smear Don Siegelman , the Democratic governor of Alabama, in a way that would prevent his re-election. It is suspected that Rove was involved. I have long suspected that another investigation led by Bloch's office that looked at the use of government personnel by Rove's office in conducting political operations in the 2006 elections on behalf of the Republican Party was the thing that caused Rove to resign . But perhaps that was just the ...

Crowded out of news coverage by the election and the tragedy in Burma is the curious case of Scott Bloch , who heads the Bush administration's Office of Special Counsel. Anybody who doubts the penchant for vindictiveness exercised by Club Bush -- or the long reach of departed Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove -- should view the case of Bloch as a cautionary tale. Bloch started off as what appeared to be a team player, using his office to terrorize gay people who worked in government -- especially those career attorneys who worked in his office. But when Bloch's antics began to chalk up bad publicity, he was asked to resign, and refused. Then he set about finding his pound of flesh -- in none other than Turd Blossom (as Rove is affectionately called by the president). As your blogstress wrote last year at The American Prospect Online : Bloch's inquiry lifted the lid on what many of us, dismissed as too partisan to be heeded, had already known: that under Rove's tutel...

At Pottersville , they're offering the "Top Ten Likeliest Items Left in Karl Rove's Desk Drawers," only three of which can we print on this dysfunctional-family-friendly blog: 10) Letter opener still caked with human brain matter. 9) 14 pages of emails from Mel Martinez at the RNC filled with jokes about Jerry Falwell’s death. 8) Expired contract with Satan with loopholes circled in red ink. Of course, we can't stop you from driving through Pottersville .

Here's a snip from an interview Karl Rove gave to the McClatchy newspapers: Rove also expects congressional Democrats to continue efforts to get him to testify in an inquiry into the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. "They're going to keep coming after me," Rove told McClatchy. "They've got a bunch of guys auditioning for the role of Captain Ahab, and I'm Moby Dick." Well, he is big and white.

He'll be too busy collecting oodles of dough for a book advance and corporate governance deals -- not to mention answering the calls speed-dialed from the Oval Office. From our long lost correspondent, The Internationalist , your blogstress received this fit of pique: Damn, if I have to hear more about the "genius" of Karl Rove, I am going to hack up a fur ball. The tale of how he saw the potential in the blue-jean-wearing "W" who came to meet him at Union Station -- the "glow" Karl saw was probably W's Jack & coke buzz. I would go on about Rove having "the math," but it just gives me a headache, reminding me of trying to find the square root for imaginary numbers. Watch out for fuzzy projectiles, mes amis .

The Supreme Court's decision of yesterday, sticking a sword in the side of Brown v. Board of Education , demands comment far more informed and considered than your blogstress is, at the moment, capable of making, given her current condition the day after a tooth extraction that did not go well. With her mind clouded by painkillers, your cybertrix leaves it those more lucid than she to shed light on the misdeeds of the Roberts court. The best your ecrivaine has to offer is a comment made by Jonathan Turley of the George Washington University School of Law on Wednesday's edition of NPR's syndicated "The Diane Rehm Show," during which he described Chief Justice John Roberts of looking like something that was "grown hydroponically by Karl Rove."

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