Karl Rove, Bush’s former longtime political adviser, architect of numerous questionable election victories, and runner-up to veep Cheney in the Be as evil and manipulative as Darth Vader pageant, is under investigation for his role in the firings of US attorneys whose political views didn’t jive with the president’s. In a nutshell, he was subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee and he refused to show up to testify, citing “executive privilege” that makes him “immune” from such things like “the law.”

This is just disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. It literally makes me feel a bit sick. Once again, a member of the Bush gang has decided they’re magically exempt from the rule of law, and is trying to get away with it.

Guess what, Rove? You’re not the executive. You don’t even work for him anymore. And even if you did, “The courts have made clear that no one — not even the president — is immune from compulsory process. That is what the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Nixon and Clinton v. Jones,” said Rep. Linda Sanchez, California-D and chairwoman of the subcommittee on commercial and administrative law. And she’s right. This is just another example of how the Bush administration clearly thinks it is above the law, no matter what the Constitution states or how the Supreme Court has previously ruled. Yet while Rove refuses to obey a legal order to testify under oath, he gladly goes on Fox News and runs his mouth about this stuff for as long as they keep writing him checks.

No one — no one — is above the law. If we allow this kind of crap, there’s little point in our country existing at all. The “executive privilege” clause needs to be defined a little more carefully, it seems, because the Bush administration has used it to varying extents to spy on Americans without warrants, to protect telecom companies who illegally setup wiretaps, to prevent intelligence officials from testifying before Congress about what they really knew before the Iraq war started, and now to cover up political firings. It has unquestionably been abused, and little has been done about it because the administration just says “Terrorists!” and half of the country falls meekly into line and lets these people continue to trash our laws, our Constitution, and our very way of life in the name of “security.”

CNN: Rove ignores committee’s subpoena, refuses to testify