Where's Karl Rove?

So much Goss, so little time. The media is still trying to spin the Goss firing as a simmering dispute between Goss and EVERYONE in the Bush administration. A dispute that finally came to a head on Friday. This explanation simply cannot be true. With time the White House would have spun this correctly. With time they would have had a replacement for Goss ready to go. With time there would have been a few well placed stories in the media preparing Washington for the Goss shake-up. None of this happened. Instead, you have a rocked Washington, and media, establishment struggling to figure out WTF is going on.

Laura blogging over at War & Piece sums it up like this:

Does the way it happened resemble the slo-mo, warm and fuzzy way Andy Card and Scott McClellan were retired? Or does it rather have more in common with the swiftly announced departures of Claude Allen and David Safavian from their posts, a few days before we hear of federal investigations?

Laura is dead on... except for one thing: Why, if a Goss scandal is about to break, would the president hold a press briefing with Goss to announce his resignation? A scandal weary president would not have allowed himself to be seen with Goss if another scandal was afoot. It doesn't make sense. Unless, of course, you factor in Patrick Fitzgerald and the CIA leak investigation. Huh? Yes, well, only to the extent that if Karl Rove weren't in imminent danger of being indicted, and otherwise preoccupied, he would have been on the Goss case. He would have been orchestrating this resignation firing in the best political light.

This whole Goss resignation smacks of political incompetence. So my question is: Where is Karl Rove?