If the shoe was on the other foot the wurlitzer would be all over this weasily lawyer parsing of meanings.
An alternative reading (though not so different).
See "Petard, hoist by one's own." This is the value of the independent judiciary: a court is going to decide whether words mean what they mean or what Republicans say that they mean.
I'd been skeptical until today's gaggle, but shit really is about to blow wide open on this.
If anyone hasn't read it, it's here.
Whenever I look at a picture of Karl Rove's face, I think the word "cutlets".
True story: whenever I walk by a standpipe, I scan for the word "bridgeplate".
This is so sad. Before, you all maintained innocent, uncomplicated standpipe relations, but now I've gone and cast you from your eden of urban fire safety.