Why Rovegate Won't Go Away

Read Josh Marshall on this ridiculous ploy by Senator Pat Roberts.

Is it just too hot in Washington DC, are their brains melting down there?

The only reason Chairman Roberts now wants hearings into this question is that it might generate more fodder for excuse-making for those who will climb any mountain and ford any stream to avoid holding any of the president's lieutenants to account.

Sen. Roberts has turned the Intel Committee into an arm of Karl Rove's political operation. In the truest sense of the word, Sen. Roberts is a hack, a shame to his office.