Happened to catch the last 10 minutes of the Randi Rhodes Show on Air America, heading home. In the midst of taking a call, she burst into laughter and stopped the caller to read a breaking news story: that Karl Rove has informed the White House that he will be indicted this week, and will resign immediately thereafter.

Just finished a quick check around the news outlets, including the real leading edge sites, and no confirmation so far. But Randi sounded pretty convinced.

How appropriate that the news would come out on Mother’s Day weekend.

Lord knows Rove is the biggest mother of them all.

It’s 7:37 pm, May the 12th, 2006. And VDB’s fingers are now officially crossed.

Late Update, Saturday, the 13th, 11:51 am:

Still no word out anywhere that we can see, and it’s fully possible that Rhodes was hallucinating. It didn’t sound like it, though, and VDB remains hopeful beyond all logic.

Even Later Update, Sunday the 14th, 10:28 pm:
Multiple reports by email now, to the effect that Truthout.org is the source of the Randi Rhodes Show’s ahead-of-the-curve Rove report. Here’s that link. Whether it’s credible or not, at least it feels good not to be the only person running the story at this point.

If you haven’t stocked your Fitzmas decorations and sparkling wine, you might want to do that early in the week. A word to the wise.

Final Update, Tuesday morning coming down: Apparently the party’s over . . . MyDD states what is now fairly obvious. The Rove story was a red herring.

Please log out from VDB now. We just feel like we have to be alone.