This CIA leak investigation is getting serious. Now it appears someone, or perhaps two someones, have been—get this—thrown under a bus! Can you say "attempted murder"? Or maybe something more colorful: How about "fitted for concrete shoes"?
At first I thought it was out of control rhetoric, clichés run amok...but now the news is all over the blogosphere. There's obviously a bus somewhere in D.C. with tattered Brooks Brothers lapels dangling from its mudflaps.
The question is, whose?
Crooks and Liars early on reported it was Tim Russert who was thrown under a bus. (They also report David Gergen adding the tantalizing details that "the wheels are coming off the administration.") But Tim was on Meet the Press just the other day, and wasn't even bruised, so I doubt he had any close encounters with fenders.
Then there are reports it was Rove who threw Libby under the bus, or vice versa. Firedoglake even has a photo! (Who'd have thought someone named Scooter could do so much damage to the front end of a bus?)
More recently Scotty McClellen was accused of tossing Rove and Libby under a bus. (The same bus? Or would it take two buses?) I doubt this report, however: I've seen Scotty, and I've seen Rove, and I think Scotty would have a hard time heaving that heft under a bicycle, much less a bus.
RJ Eskow seems to think the crime was committed on the high seas. (No word yet on the whereabouts of Col. Mustard.)
In what seems to be a case of copycat crime, Times reporter Judy Miller was also thrown under a bus, (or possibly a train) but by now bus-throwing is so common the Times doesn't even bother to cover the story.
Not even the highest levels of government are immune from the accusations. There are reports—get this—that it's Cheney himself who's involved in the bus throwing! From no less a source than The Plank:
And if they did, does that mean that Cheney is throwing his chief of staff under the bus?
The account also contains a clue as to the whereabouts of the bus:
Loyalty is a two way street.
This story raises some obvious questions. Would Cheney, who now walks with a cane, be strong enough to chuck his chief of staff under a bus? Or did he enlist the aid of the parasitically-named David Wurmser? And isn't a guy named Scooter just asking to be thrown somewhere in the region of a bus?
One thing's for certain: The wheels of justice will continue to turn. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will get to the bottom of this.
Unless he's thrown under a bus.
