Top Ten Things Likely to be Heard Spewing Forth From A Republican's Mouth Today

1. It's not really illegal.
   
   
2. Rove didn't do it ON PURPOSE.
   
   
3. Valerie DESERVED IT ANYWAY.
   
   
4. It's really Hadley's fault, he prepared Rove's illegal statement. We should promote him again.
   
   
5. If it was illegal, it was really a partisan law designed to encumber the president and we should retroactively revoke it.
   
   
6. Anyone who would believe that the President's Press Secretary would break the law by revealing top secret information in order to punish a political enemy must be some kind of communist conspiracy nut.
   
   
7. It depends on what you mean by "told".
   
   
8. Hey, look over there (run the other way).
   
   
9. Rove is a career public servant, patriot and a national hero. It's embarassing for the democrats to be attacking such a loyal and dependable public servant for the obvious and purely political reason that they lost the last election fair and square.
   
   
10. Yeah, but at least he didn't get caught having sex in the white house, like that loser Bill Clinton.