White House rebuffs calls for shakeup and apology

[sabra]

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/10/31/build/nation/26-bush.inc

White House rebuffs calls for shakeup and apology

Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Monday rebuffed calls for a staff shakeup, the firing of Karl Rove and an apology by President Bush for the role of senior administration officials in the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Three days after the indictment and resignation of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, the administration said it would have to remain silent as long as there was an investigation of the leak and legal proceeding under way. Bush ignored reporters' questions during an Oval Office meeting with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

"We don't want to do anything from here that could prejudice the opportunity for there to be a fair and impartial trial," presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said.

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"There's no discussion of staff changes beyond the usual vacancies that occur or beyond filling the vacancy that the vice president did as well," McClellan said.

[Inland]

1. Cheney refuses to fire Bush, says he still has important role to play. nt

[louis-t]

2. To these criminals "fair and impartial trial" means..

payoff the judge or blanket pardons.

[ixion]

3. and into the bunker they go

We need to keep the interest in the BOGUS information that started us off on this illegal course that has alienated us from the world.

[merwin]

4. I guess "Fair and impartial trial" is the new "ongoing investigation"

Idiots.

[leetrisck]

5. We should never ask for an apology

what good would it do anyone anyway - all the people are still dead. Just keep blasting the hell out of them but never, never ask for an apology and the Democrats should never apologize for anything either.

[XNGH]

8. Justice

It's justice that I want

[joeunderdog]

10. I agree. It's getting old. There's a request for apology story daily.

Then the pukes laugh at us and it just illustrates how helpless we are to get them to do anything. They just laugh. We look stupider, even when we're right.

[rodeodance]

6. its the stay the course mantra (and with the help of the media the WH

just might dig itself out??).

[FloridaPat]

7. This is great! The more they do this the worse it will get for them.

Loyalty helped kill Nixon's presidency. Hopefully, it will do the same for this disater in Washington.

If these clowns came out and did all that, they might fool enough people that they are sincere and their approval rating would rise.

[MasonJar]

9. In other words there will never be a statement because hopefully

there will a continuous string of indictments and trials.