Thibaud's post on TPMCafe's obsession with Rove at the cost of contemplating the weightier London bombings gives me a chance to articulate something I hadn't quite figured out--namely, why, as a longtime blog reader but rare contributer, I've glommed onto Rove this week. Relative to previous performance, I've been posting like a madman. (sorry to those who've already read this in comments). The answer, I think, complicates his distinction between people who care about things "inside the beltway" and those concerned with "outside the beltway."

I'm writing about Rove from England, where I live. What last week's terrorist attacks made chillingly clear to me was the disasterous effects of Bush's foreign policy, a foreign policy criminally enabled by Rove's disrediting of Wilson's findings.

Rove for me isn't just about partisanship. This is about me being really fired up by the fact after having been within a mile from the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 and then moving across the Atlantic, I'm followed by jihadist terror in large part because of a concocted war in Iraq. Truthfully, I'm less concerned about the outing of Plame than I am the sociopathic suppression of any information that might suggest that this war was a war of political choice built upon lies and marketed to the public like a happymeal. Eat shit, turd-blossom.

That's why I'm so eager to take Rove down. How about you?