Rover

As the Wall Street Journal dutifully strains to spin the Rove scandal (like a good little mouthpiece), the LA Times reminds us that Rove was fired from George H.W. Bush's second presidential campaign because of suspicions that he leaked information to Robert Novak.

The Times article supplies additional fascinating backstory:

But Rove developed an increasingly close relationship with the president's son George — a relationship that began on a spring day in 1973, when the elder Bush asked Rove to pick up his son at Washington's Union Station to give the visiting Harvard Business School student the keys to the family car. By Rove's own description, young Karl Rove was awed at first sight.

Sometimes these cartoons just write themselves...