Politics, Compassion, and Justice

From Salon.com

But John Podesta, the former chief of staff for Bill Clinton and current head of the Center for American Progress, speculates that something else may be going on here. In a post at Think Progress, Podesta wonders if Rove has finally lost his security clearance — and thus his ability to work on policy issues that pertain to national security — as a result of his role in the outing of Valerie Plame.

As Podesta notes, an executive order Clinton signed in 1995 requires the prompt revocation of security clearances belonging to anyone who knowingly, willfully or negligently engages in action that “could reasonably be expected to result in an unauthorized disclosure of classified information.”

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Here’s another, more obvious, question to ponder: If Rove is really going to spend the next seven months concentrating on partisan politics, why, exactly, should American taxpayers be footing the bill?

Yowsa, good point Tim Grieve. Why should the taxpayer pay for someone who has an explicitely partisan function in the administration. Rove’s job isn’t just to promote the President’s agenda, it is to create and maintain a Republican government. Note that I wrote “Republican” and not “Conservative”. The President doesn’t have a conservative ideology, unless it means for the rich to conserve their wealth (at the expense of everyone else).