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The papers are buzzing today with the news that President Bush's senior political adviser Karl Rove has lost the position of "senior policy coordinator" (how, exactly, did he qualify for that job?) but here at 201k our interest was more peaked by the secondary story: that Scott McClellan had resigned his post as the president's chief spokesman.

It has always been our suspicion that presidential spokesmen resign when they know something is in the works that will cast doubt on the veracity or integrity of their earlier remarks. They get out before things hit the fire, so to speak, which not only spares them the glaring spotlight of the ugly truth, but protects the holder of the office they serve by creating a revolving cast of spokes-dissemblers, increasing both distance and bodies between the President and the very professional lies that are told on his behalf.

In fact, McClellan himself came to his position in just this way, taking over after former spokesman Ari Fleischer -- having done his job to promote the war in Iraq with a spiderweb of half-truths, disinformation, and double-talk -- bailed before his chickens came home to roost.

So, you heard it here first: something is coming, some piece of news that is very bad for the White House -- something that McClellan either lied about openly, or dissembled about in a way that can not be defended, even to the canaries in the White House press corps. Bet on it.