Waiting for the hammer to fall...

If you ever visit one of my very favorite blogs, dailykos, you will notice that pretty much everyone on that Web site has worked themselves into a tizzy over the possibility that the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, Patrick Fitzgerald, is going to be indicting some fairly high-level officials any minute now. We're talking big names -- Dick Cheney himself, the squinty-eyed little bastard known as Karl Rove, and the man who was named after a Muppet, Scooter Libby.

Strangely enough, I've paid very little attention to the whole CIA leak/Valerie Plame hoopla, primarily because I always viewed it as an exercise in futility. The media, of which I am technically a member, has also paid very little attention to this story. But that could all change fairly quickly if some big indictments are actually handed down.

For my part, I'm really trying not to get too excited about this story and its potential damaging impact on the Bush administration. The man's approval rating is already in the toilet, he can't be re-elected again (thank God) and he's not going to be impeached/resign, no matter how bad things get. And while it would be a lot of fun to watch Cheney and Rove go down in a ball of flame, I'm not counting on that to happen. I've learned from experience that if you expect people to stand up and take notice because this time the Bushies have done something so utterly incomprehensible and wrong, you're going to be sorely disappointed.