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Karl Rove announces resignation
By FT ReportersPublished: August 13 2007 09:51
Karl Rove, President George W. Bush’s long-standing political adviser, has announced he is to resign at the end of this month.
The decision to step down comes as poll ratings for Mr Bush remain at the lowest level since his election in 2000.
Mr Rove, a long time political ally of the president, was the architect of Mr Bush’s controversial victory in 2000 and his re-election three years ago.
But in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr Rove said he was resigning to return to his home state of Texas and spend more time with his family.
Mr Rove said he first floated the idea of leaving the White House a year ago but delayed his departure bacause of the Democrats victory in Congressional elections at the end of last year.
It’s about Friggin’ Time! But you can be sure he’s up to something else- my guess is a cushy consulting job with a voting machine company
I see that he’s using the usual excuse: got to get back to the wife and family…
A pox on the body politic he is, and all of his imitators and minions.
Something else must be up, though.
Let the other shoe drop…
can you imagine that?
So, do you think he’ll be Fred Thompson’s guy next?
He’s got to have time to concentrate on how to fuck up the next election for the democrats. Gaa!
I really very much doubt that people could keep using Rove’s trademark style. Keep using the same tricks over and over and pretty soon someone’s going to cotton on. That’s part of Bush’s problem now. People are beginning to to cotton.
They’re releasing this on a Monday morning…
Watch below the fold, watch the inside pages, watch the overseas press. VERY VERY carefully. Something major is going to happen in the next 48 hours…
Do peace negotiations between Karzai/Musharraf and “the opposition” count?
I kind of doubt it, I think something closer to home. Shifting alliances among the South Asian / Middle Eastern warlords and despots are a given.
Saw something just now that he’s still predicting that the R’s will win 2008, so he COULD just be going underground to let his tracks cool off a bit. I’m like you, I wonder who he’ll go to work for?
I bet he goes to work for Huckabee in 2-3 months. Huckabee does well and Rove resigns. Waits and see how well the momentum builds in the fall.
Add that to the lovefest that Booman’s reporting about and it makes you go hmmm.
I ‘m beginning to think that the Bush’s will change course in their strategy. For what they need Rove just isn’t the man.
They need someone who can finesse damage control ^^ So I would be very much surprised if this isn’t signaling a change of policy in the WH.
yup the times are a changin’…i seriously doubt that he is out of the game just yet. he is not one who I suspect that is going away with a smile on his face….not kkkarl.
I do think that the WH is on fire and he just can not stand the heat. Just how much more damage can he do now that there is about 17 months left….after all cheney is the real president. bush is just the figurehead and cheerleader for this madness…maybe someone did find him with jeff gannon after all…;o) oh well, good riddins and may the door hit his a@@ as he leaves…
Is the Gannon/Guckert story about to finally break in the MSM? I don’t think so. You think its a moral moment in Karl over Cheney’s bloodthirsty Iran bombing spree? a moral moment from Karl over the use of nukes? Is Rove really human? Is he a Borg like Cheney?
This resignation can’t be about stress and pressure of the job. I just don’t believe it. He’s got a job offer, he’s too hot, knows too much, something has been rotten in the core, and the core’s about to be exposed. Something more than the pressure of the job. Rove thrives on turmoil and improvisation in breaking situations.
SMH notes that he has a college-age son. Like he’s going to “spend time” raising his kid in college? No, this is big time, this is working undercover for the Bush Crime Family, something sinister, something worth leaving the limelight of the White House.
He was subpoenad (sp?), right? Is he exempt from testifying if he no longer works for the White House?
Plenty of reasons in the analysis in this month’s Atlantic – Joshua Green: The Rove Presidency (sub. req’d). Also a blurb up @ Time – Jay Carney: Karl Rove’s Flawed Vision. No shortage of eulogies today.
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In his departing words, Karl Rove stated his friendship with George Bush for 34 years.
That would be from his first tricks & lies in 1972-73 with Georgie boy going AWOL from TANG in Texas/Arkansas. Karl is in it very deep with changing facts into fantasy, life into death and doomsday into everyday. Karl Rove was first hired by senior of course, to look after junior going to Harvard.
Rove went to work for the College Republicans National Committee and became involved in the Nixon campaign, which brought him to the attention of then-CIA director George H.W. Bush.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."it’s important to remember that karl’s involvement with the bush clan goes back a long ways…
where he was for many years an understudy with the odious lee atwater, of willie horton fame.
as l posited in another thread, imo, this has all the earmarks of an intervention by poppy, bab’s and the carlyle group cadre, to salvage what remains of the family legacy. after all, 41 fired him once already in ’92.
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Cliff Schecter dug up this old CBS News clip from 1972 that features Rove (toward the end of the segment) at the RNC back when he had hair. It’s a really good piece…
H/T RandyH
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
Perhaps same person?
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."at least he knows when to exit…but there may be more despite spin he’s
thoroughly discredited writes Andrew Sullivan
nothing here to recommend as a human being.
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Karl Rove, who will still believe him?
(NPR) – Rove also told the Journal that he believed Mr. Bush would bounce back from historically low public opinion polls, saying Bush would move up from about a 30 percent approval rating to 40 percent, and “higher than Congress.”
He predicted Iraq would be “a better place” as the surge continues and that the Democrats would nominate Hillary Clinton for the presidency, a candidate he called “tough, tenacious, fatally flawed.” He also said he believes Republicans have a very good chance of winning the White House again in 2008.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."He was one of the great trinity of under-Bushies to really let us have it: Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld. As long as he could get 50% plus 1, Rove did not mind that he turned Democrats and Republicans into factions who might take generations to ever really get along again. In trying to get his 100 year Republican control, he really duplicated the Thousand Year Reich in his evil.
Here’s hoping Leahy and Conyers persist in keeping him subpoenaed until he testifies and, perhaps, gets to joining some of his Republican colleagues in jail.
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