If you haven’t figured it out yet, the cry-baby prosecutor scandal is really the Valerie (is this my best side?) Plame story all wrapped in one.

How? It’s all about getting Rove baby!

“The group meets in the Roosevelt Room and includes aides to the White House counsel, the chief of staff, the attorney general and Karl Rove, who also sometimes attends himself. Each of them signs off on every nomination.

Mr. Rove, a top adviser to the president, takes charge of the politics. As caretaker to the administration’s conservative allies, Mr. Rove relays their concerns, according to several participants in the Wednesday meetings. And especially for appointments of United States attorneys, he manages the horse trading.

“What Karl would say is, ‘Look, if this senator who has been working with the president on the following things really wants this person and we think they are acceptable, why don’t we give the senator what he wants?’ ” said one former administration official. “ ‘You know, we stiffed him on that bill back there.’ ”

Mr. Rove’s role has put him in the center of a Senate inquiry into the dismissal of eight United States attorneys. Democrats and a few Republicans have raised questions about whether the prosecutors were being replaced to impede or jump-start investigations for partisan goals.

Political advisers have had a hand in picking judges and prosecutors for decades, but Mr. Rove exercises unusually broad influence over political, policy and personnel decisions because of his closeness to the president, tenure in the administration and longstanding interest in turning the judiciary to the right.”

Sounds like a scene from the Democrat training video, “The West Wing”.

The real target of Leahy, Schumer and other Democrats (oh, and the two or three republicans that are really democrats) has everthing to do with getting Rove and nothing at all with the actual story of the US attorneys.

Point of fact they’ve wanted to get him from the get-go for no other reason than when he called their response to 9/11 “timid” and he didn’t apologize for it. They want him – as does the left – because he kicked their ass in three consecutive elections. They want to get Rove for no other reason than what they accuse the administration of, “political and partisan purposes”.

Talk about hypocrisy.

Whether Rove is mentioned or not mentioned in the email or had “extraordinary influence”, to this date there isn’t a shred of evidence of any wrong-doing in the US attorney case. There isn’t one shred of evidence that the prosecutors were let go for any other reason than because they failed to please the President of the United States, of which they serve at the pleaure of.

But you know it won’t matter because it’s all about Rove baby, and if not this it will be another story the Democrats (and those who act like them) will dredge up.

Can’t wait for them to blame Global Warming on him.