Courtesy DCCC, here is a timeline (with references/links) for all the significant events composing the Rove/Plame scandal. The fact that it ties together covert and illegal Executive Branch actions, perjury, obstruction of justice, treason, and conspiracy to falsify information used to justify war, makes it the most important federal case of my lifetime.

What amazes me the most is not that these illegal and very damaging actions were done by the Republican Administration, but that the vast majority of the American public continue to sit on their collective and ever-expanding asses, indifferent to the importance of the scandal.

Speaking of public indifference, here are some apropos quotes, courtesy ICH:

“As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.” - - - Lyn Nofziger - [Franklyn C. Nofziger] Press Secretary for President Reagan “It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.” - - - John Philpot Curran - (1750-1814) Irish Orator, Statesman, Judge - Date: July 10, 1790 - Source: Speech, Dublin, July 10, 1790 “For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.” - - - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - (1888-1965)