I, Turd Blossom, do solemnly swear...

BushCo made a big show of how new WH Chief of Staff Bolten put the smack-down on Rove.

And the press played it for what BushCo insinuated that it was: a shake-up response to low poll numbers.

But was it? Or was it one more step in a slow disappearing act?

Because Rove, you know, has been called again to testify before a grand jury in the Plame case.