The Art of the Possible...

I dunno, but if you ask me, I say Andy Card is at the bottom of the Plame-Rove-Liddy-Cheney scandal.
Frankly he may be the secret and perfect stoolie in this matter.
I mean think about it, Andy has been cleaning up La Famiglia's Arbusto's messes for nigh on twenty five years now, a Former Secretary of Transportation and Massachusetts GOP Macher now reduced to tattered courtier status. And its not like he can ever escape that role either, whats he gonna do? Come back to the Commonwealth and run for Governor?
Hell no, the aging Grandees of the local Republican Party (which is now nothing but a collection of fundraising P.O. boxes) don't know Andy from a cord of wood. Even if he won, whats he gonna do then? Run for President in 2012 and get run through a wood-chipper by Marvin, Jeb or Noelle Bush?
No, Andy's only hope is the life of a lackey. Nonetheless I do suspect him of having strong "Hop Frog" tendencies that is to say a earnest even fanatical desire to get Norquist, Rove and perhaps even Cheney himself out of the way in the grand style of Edgar Allan Poe's vengeful court jester.
And why the hell not?
Andy has been around GWB for a good long time now, he knows where the President's wires are, what to pull to release that infamous smirk and all like that.
Why should Andy have to shre power with cavorting Nibelungs and squalid revolutionaries like Karl Rove and John Bolton?
The GOP may well go off a cliff next year in the mid-terms so its pretty much a given that Karl Rove and his machine has pretty much served its purpose...maybe Andy Card wants to shove him aside and seize center stage for the remainder of GWB's misbegotten term.
If Card plays his "cards" right, he might even be able to compel Cheney's resignation, who out ther thinks old Dick has the health and the stamina for a serious legal battle?
I think Andy is betting he has not...and then Oh Boy the fun begins, the guy who hold's Bush's hat will be virtually naming the next Vice President of the USA!
Imagine a neverous little shit like Rick Santorum forced to cool his heels in Andy's outer office while the White House Chief of Staff interviews Orrin Hatch, who sits there hat in hand like Marshal Petain.
If Card can avoid getting his fingerprints on this mishaugas then it's very heady stuff, not to normal people like us mind you, but to a fawning truckling passive aggressive little lackey, its like winning the Powerball.