John takes an obvious pill

"The real goal of Congress's subpoena assault is to cripple the Bush Presidency."

Er, yeah. Maybe Fund could do a piece on the broadcast goals of CBS.

Meanwhile, for something completely different, with a fresh, new perspective, NPR did a piece yesterday on comity.

QueensGuy replies: You know how to tell when someone hasn't properly prepared for an NPR interview? When he offers nothing better than the ol' slippery slope defense to an offered compromise. Yes, the administration will win this point in court in the end, and along the way they'll look like they have something to hide, providing further ammo for weeks to come. [ed.-contra ColumbusGuy]

That said, your larger point is indubitably correct. Nobody in Congress seriously believes that a crime has yet been committed. Their only hope to leverage this into a crippling blow is if Rove is as dense as Gonzalez and Libby, and would lie under oath. The odds on that are slim to none.

Finally, I don't get the sense that this issue has real public traction yet outside of the impeach-at-all-costs crowd. Too lawyerly. Absent a real smoking gun, which would have been in the emails, there's nothing sexy enough here for a good sound-bite rebuttal to the "we hired you to govern again, not continue attacking one another," sentiment.