It's acutally a nightmare scenario for the White House. Americans are paying attention to the Rove Scandal...and they're not happy. Big hat tip to Atrios:
Just a quarter of Americans think the White House is fully cooperating in the federal investigation of the leak of a CIA operative's identity, a number that's declined sharply since the investigation began. And three-quarters say that if presidential adviser Karl Rove was responsible for leaking classified information, it should cost him his job.Only one quarter of Americans think the Bushies are cooperating. That's only half the people who voted for him.
Skepticism about the administration's cooperation has jumped. As the initial investigation began in September 2003, nearly half the public, 47 percent, believed the White House was fully cooperating. That fell to 39 percent a few weeks later, and it's lower still, 25 percent, in this new ABC News poll.
And those numbers on Rove. Wow. Rove is now in the position of destroying the Bush presidency he worked so hard to build. And just as importantly, at least half the people who voted for Bush think Rove should be fired if he leaked.
