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I think it is the end of the Bush term ;just 16 months left and Rove is looking to his future. He has to hook up with a national campaign soon before the primary season comes to an end in Jan. or Feb.
btw ;was George Stephanopoulos Bill Clinton's Rudolph Hess ?
I think it is the end of the Bush term ;just 16 months left and Rove is looking to his future. He has to hook up with a national campaign soon before the primary season comes to an end in Jan. or Feb.
btw ;was George Stephanopoulos Bill Clinton's Rudolph Hess ?
Stephanopoulos, Naw, not at all; Rudolph Hess was Hitler’s closest advisor and good friend.
I think you make a good point about the possible reason for his leaving now; there have been all sorts of reckless comments made by the Democratic left… we will soon have an idea, particularly if he remains active in Politics.
He was a whipping boy for the libs personifying everything they see wrong with American politics. It was in fact impossible for one person beyond the President himself to have had such an influence. It is like the almost mythical influence they attach to VP Cheney. It makes for a great narrative the comparisons to Rasputin (or Hess) but it isn't true.
There isn't a policy that Bush right or wrong would not have initiated if Rove wasn't an adviser to him .
The libs in their attempt to get Rove have sicked a Special Prosecutor on him (he went in front of the grand jury 5 times ) and have held countless "oversight " investigations . They haven't laid a glove on him . The only thing they have thrown at him that sticks is that he orchestrates winning elections . That makes him evil personified .
Even his supposed big failure can not be pinned only on him . His ambition was to create the equivalent of a Republican majority that rivaled the Democrat control of Congress for 40 years . That could not have happened in such a polarized environment as we have had since the post Vietnam era began . The truth is that with little room for error he got the President elected and re-elected .
It did not help him that the President and the Congress both forgot the reasons they were elected and became mirror images of each other when it came to spending our tax dollars.
edit :
Byron York at National Review has an article that details the points I tried to raise.
Now, however, having won control of the House and Senate, Democrats can conduct their own investigations and issue their own subpoenas, and Rove is again in their sights. Getting Rove would be getting the president, and Democrats are pushing hard to force Rove to testify in the U.S. attorneys matter. So far, the White House has refused, setting up a confrontation that won’t change whether Rove is on or off the administration payroll. (As for Rove himself, he’ll still have to deal with congressional investigators, but he won’t have to deal with them and with his full-time White House job.)
Amid all the investigating, the White House as a whole has entered the unavoidable slump that comes as a president approaches the second half of his second term. Some long-time staff members have left, and others are thinking about it. Against that backdrop, Rove’s departure is not a surprise, nor is it all that unusual. He really is tired, and he really wants to spend more time with his family. But this day has its roots in a series of events that no one could have fully anticipated during that celebration on November 3, 2004.
He was a whipping boy for the libs personifying everything they see wrong with American politics. It was in fact impossible for one person beyond the President himself to have had such an influence. It is like the almost mythical influence they attach to VP Cheney. It makes for a great narrative the comparisons to Rasputin (or Hess) but it isn't true.
There isn't a policy that Bush right or wrong would not have initiated if Rove wasn't an adviser to him .
The libs in their attempt to get Rove have sicked a Special Prosecutor on him (he went in front of the grand jury 5 times ) and have held countless "oversight " investigations . They haven't laid a glove on him . The only thing they have thrown at him that sticks is that he orchestrates winning elections . That makes him evil personified .
Even his supposed big failure can not be pinned only on him . His ambition was to create the equivalent of a Republican majority that rivaled the Democrat control of Congress for 40 years . That could not have happened in such a polarized environment as we have had since the post Vietnam era began . The truth is that with little room for error he got the President elected and re-elected .
It did not help him that the President and the Congress both forgot the reasons they were elected and became mirror images of each other when it came to spending our tax dollars.
edit :
Byron York at National Review has an article that details the points I tried to raise.
I largely agree with all you say, and maybe you are right about the policies having been the same, but with Rove as with Hess, it was how the policies were framed that Rove and Hess made their contribution.
Rove has spent the last six and a half years improperly and dangerously politicizing the federal government. He did so unashamedly, too proclaiming a Republican permanency. Indeed, he might have accomplished this task without breaking any law, or at least he avoided being caught breaking any law.
But, what he did do should be troubling to right wingers too. Once elected, an administration serves ALL the people. This one did not and instead tried to fix the process. If that’s ok with you (and it’s not), and he gets away with it, you’re sure not gonna like it very much WHEN Democrats do it too, as they surly will.
I don’t expect that you’ll find fault because Rove is a Republican. I would hope, however, that you’d find fault because YOU’RE an American.
1. The "fairness doctrine";
2. General Petraeus's success in Iraq;
3. The "vast right wing conspiracy";
4. The fact that they're running out of false Nazi analogies;
5. FISA reform;
6. Tax breaks for the wealthy Americans;
7. Global warming;
8. Why Conservatives insist on calling National Healthcare "socialized medicine";
9. Wal-Mart;
10. Coming soon: Why Hillary didn't win.
And for Elliot to moan about, people who answer rhetorical questions with lists.
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