Creature of Habit

This sounds familiar:

During George H.W. Bush's second presidential campaign, Rove was fired from the campaign team because of suspicions that he had leaked information to columnist Robert Novak — the same columnist who first reported Plame's CIA role in 2003, citing anonymous administration sources.

At the time, Bush's campaign was in trouble, and there was concern that the president might not even win his home state of Texas. The Novak column described a Dallas meeting in which the campaign's state manager, Robert Mosbacher, was stripped of his authority because the Texas effort was viewed as a bust.

Mosbacher complained, expressing his suspicion that Rove was the leaker. Rove denied the charge, but was fired nevertheless.

Well, except the part about Rove getting fired. Apparently George the Younger can't bring himself to take that step. Maybe it's because you can't spell "deficit"--fiscal or mental--without Dubya.

As for Novak, most of y'all have probably seen Murray Waas's piece on the original Prince of Darkness--they shined a flashlight into the dank basement he calls home--and Bob blinked.