This Cat Grins

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

--Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"

Someone sent me this article by Justin Raimondo, who writes convincingly that Karl Rove is not the target of the special prosecutor's investigation in the Valerie Plame case, because the Office of the Vice President IS. You remember Dick Cheney, don't you, the disappearing Cheshire cat of the phony war in Iraq?

Just this morning on The McLaughlin Group, Pat Buchanan was saying that the leaking of Plame's identity was retaliation against the C.I.A. by the neo-cons for the C.I.A.'s hesitation to get involved in cooking the books on Iraq. Raimondo -- whoever the hell he is -- agrees and weaves together all the known details about Rove, Cheney, and Wilson, and Raimondo names names of suspects on Cheney's staff.

NOTE: Google comes through! Justin Raimondo, turns out, is an openly gay libertarian who ran as a Republican against Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th Dist. in 1996. He supported Pat Buchanan in his presidential bids (hence the resemblance to what Buchanan was saying this a.m.), and supported Ralph Nadar in 2004. He's editorial director of the website AntiWar.com.

And how is El Presidente like Alice in Wonderland?

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" [asked Alice].

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where--" said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

"--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation.

"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."