Rove: Beginning of the End, or just the End of the Beginning?

Reports are that Karl Rove was brought back for his fourth appearance before the grand jury for questioning about "discrepancies in testimony between Rove and Time reporter Matt Cooper about their conversation of July 11, 2003." At issue is that Rove didn't disclose details of the conversation to the grand jury during his first testimony, or the FBI when they interviewed him.

Which is great and all, but this is starting to drag on with no end in sight. Add in Judy Miller "suddenly" finding notes from a conversation with Scooter Libby, which will need to be investigated in depth, and well by the time this ends Bush could be back to clearing brush full time. I'm thinking that the White House has taken control of the time line, they may not be able to affect the outcome, but they may be able to determine when it happens. If they can offset the indictments until next spring, as opposed to this fall, then there won't be any trial activity next fall, and the GOP can focus on the evils of gay people and single moms, instead of an avalanche of corruption. People don't necessarily know who Tom Delay is, and don't always care, but anything to do with why we went into Iraq gets their attention. If you want to pound away on Delay, and Duke Cunningham, and the people who took Delay's dirty money (I'm looking in your direction Rep. Chocola) you need Rove as an ice-breaker, not everybody knows what TrimPAC is, but we all know how the war in Iraq has gone.

Justice delayed is justice denied.