OK, Please Go Away Now

The things that wouldn't leave are inched ever closer to the door.

The U.S. Supreme Court will not revive a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against former members of the Bush administration.

The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

A lower court last year threw out the lawsuit in which Plame and Wilson accused former Vice President Dick Cheney and several former high-ranking administration officials of disclosing her identity to reporters in 2003. Plame and Wilson said that violated their constitutional rights.

Of course these two never quite will go away. Even worse, the loathsome Sean Penn will soon be playing that hack Wilson in an upcoming movie, sure to receive critical acclaim and few box-office receipts.