THE PRESS UNITES

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post use their news pages to promote the idea of an independent counsel. It’s the only way to keep this story at the top of the page for Day Four. The predictability of all this sinks in. The administration should simply accede now rather than later, it seems to me. In the way that such scandals operate, this will be used by the Dems to do all they can to trash the liberation of Iraq, undermine any thought that Iraq had WMDs, and generally try to hammer this president. You can see why they have seized this opportunity. It’s a big break; and they’d be crazy in purely partisan terms not to exploit it. All of which is to say that if anyone in the administration did this stupid, petty, criminal thing, he or she deserves everything they get.