In the midst of all of this Rove scrutiny out comes this interesting tidbit from TheDailyKos.

For years, political insiders in the Lone Star State have whispered about Rove’s close friendship with lobbyist Karen Johnson, a never-married, forty-something GOP loyalist from Austin, Texas. The two first became close when Johnson sat on the board of then-Governor George W. Bush’s Business Council over a decade ago. Their friendship reportedly deepened after Bush appointed Johnson—a little-known spokesperson for the Texas Good Roads Association—to a seat on his Transportation Department transition team in 2000. The plum appointment enabled Johnson’s lobbying firm, Infrastructure Solutions, to snare such high-paying clients as Aetna and the City of Laredo. Sources say Johnson now frequently travels between Washington D.C. and Austin, where she frequently appears at Rove’s side at parties and unofficial functions.

Although there is no evidence that their relationship is anything but professional, the close association between the married White House aide and the comely lobbyist has long raised eyebrows in conservative Texas circles. Asked about the pair, a prominent political journalist who has written extensively about Rove says, “I’ve heard the stories, but I would never write about Karl and Karen. If you want to keep your job as a reporter in Texas, you make believe you don’t see them together.”

So, how interesting that a man known for brutally attacking his opponents with carefully calculated lies and smears should himself be potentially involved in an illicit affair that his opponents and the press are terrified to even acknowledge. It is a measure of the power of fear and the arrogance of this administration that their chief political operative is free to behave as he wishes while he uses any smear he can make up to destroy those he views as threats, personally and professionally.

It isn’t right when he does it and it isn’t right when someone else does it but boy, if anyone cries out for a bit of “what’s good for the goose” it is Karl Rove.