This just isn’t going away.

According to Rove, the reason the American public can’t simply accept the White House claim of innocence in this matter is because of its well-established reputation for “moral callousness.”

As an illustration of this “moral callousness,” he reminds us how, in 2005, WH Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, then a Congressman, came into possession of email evidence of Rep. Mark Foley’s sexual predation on underage Congressional male pages.

Rather than take action to bring a halt to such crimes (by immediately submitting the evidence to the House Ethics Committee), Emanuel hid the evidence until the 2006 elections, when its political value would be greatest.