They Pretend to Investigate

We pretend to believe them.

Previously I posted on the appointment of Scott Bloch to investigate Karl Rove for political misdeeds. Here's an excerpt of the post I called The Fox Appointed to Guard the Hen House :

The decision to have the Office of Special Counsel investigate Karl Rove has Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it.

As I mentioned in a previous post, Scott Bloch, who will be investigating Karl Rove, is not exactly a paragon of virtue. He is a Bush appointee to take the place of the openly gay Clinton appointee Elaine Kaplan. The facts that the Office of Special Counsel doesn't normally handle this type of investigation (the news folks have been referring to this as "a little known" agency in the government), and that Bloch is who he is, make me greatly suspicious that Karl himself ordered this particular investigation to avoid having the Democrats inevitably demand an independent counsel investigation into his activities.

And here's an excerpt from Turdblossom Gets His Own Investigation:

This isn't a Democratic party initiated investigation from Congress. It comes from within the executive branch - "The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency." Therefore, I'm thinking the investigation is a ploy to "exonerate" Rove on all counts.

Well, surprise, surprise. Bloch has run out of money, and can't continue the investigation. Who would have imagined anything could have gone wrong?

You may remember Scott Bloch as Bush's associate director of the Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives before his appointment to the OSC. He's the guy who scrubbed protections for gays against discrimination in the workplace. And, just to put old political jokes into perspective, Bloch is himself under investigation. (Cue Bush's White House Correspondents' Dinner Stooge video searching for WMD in his office.)

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.