Pull out the Shivs...

'Cause there is a GOP knife-fight going on.

In the wake of the WaPo article implying that White House folks want Rove to go (i.e. Scottie McClellan), John Podhoretz, who makes a most grizzly bears look like Jeff Gannon, shoves his knife into McClellan's back:

Look, let's talk turkey. McClellan isn't a very good press secretary, to put it mildly. He looks as though at any moment he is going to bolt from the podium and go running into the bathroom to throw up. Karl Rove is the most effective White House strategist in our lifetimes.

Absent more bad news for Rove, if there were a choice about which of the two of them ought to exit, the answer would unambiguously be: Keep Rove and let McClellan walk. Unless, that is, you're the Democratic Party. Or Scott McClellan. Oh, and as for the story's detail about how Rove may still be in trouble with the special prosecutor because Fitzgerald had a conversation with Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper's lawyer this week, give me a break. We know, because Fitzgerald said so, that he's tying up loose ends and finishing his investigation. Rove spent four hours before the Fitzgerald grand jury nearly three weeks ago and that's the testimony Fitzgerald is surely doublechecking.

Podhoretz is one of the most vociferous of those proclaiming that NOTHING would develop from the Plame Matter.

Just in case you wish to still check his veracity, after wondering how long it takes to skim out his pool.