Quote of the day: If the investigation is over, since we know Karl Rove did leak gov't secrets, President Bush has to say, "Karl, you're fired!"

It really couldn't be simpler. As Rachel Maddow pointed out on her Air America Radio show yesterday, the apparent end of "Prosecutor Pat" Fitzgerald's investigation of "Bush's brain," Karl Rove, is actually good news.

Maybe it's a shame that Prosecutor Pat either couldn't match our Karl's deeds to the fine print of an appropriate statute or else didn't feel he had enough evidence to prove a case to a criminal jury. The fact is that, as a result of his investigation, we know now as a matter of record, beyond any possible doubt, that our Karl did leak Valerie Wilson's secret CIA identity.

We also know beyond any doubt that the lying sack o' shit lied about this to a grand jury. Sack-O gets probable perjury and obstruction of justice as a freebie, though. The fact remains that, just by being caught leaking that secret stuff, according to the president's own several-times-repeated standard, he's out. No ifs, ands or buts.

Remember, the only thing that has kept Sack-O on the government pad is the infinitely repeated mantra of the "ongoing investigation." Rachel played a mind-numbing collage of Flack-O Scott McClellan's infinite refusals to answer any questions about Sack-O on account of the "ongoing investigation."

Well, it was Sack-O's very own personal shyster lawyer who succeeded in extracting a letter from Prosecutor Pat stating that Sack-O Walks! Well done, Sack-O's Shyster! You've cleared the only remaining obstacle to having Sack-O heaved out on his monumentally fat ass.

So now it's time for Sack-O to face the music. Dum-de-dum-dum. It's clear that there's no possibility except that the very next words out of the mouth of George W. Bush must be:

"Turd Blossom, you're fired!"