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     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2167 Registered: 03-2006 |
Karl Rove resigned? I just saw that. Holy crap! Think the investigations were getting too close? I guess good riddance, long as doesn't keep them from mounting up evidence against him. What an evil suckah - surely up there in the evil pantheon with folks like Goebbels and Goering... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 840 Registered: 08-2006 |
The poster child for the dangers of "win at all costs" politics. By all accounts, he has a brilliant political mind but his plans for a permanent Republican majority didn't take into account the possibility his marquee attraction would turn out to be the worst president in modern history, or that his Congressional enablers would make the guys in the Sopranos look noble. Hard to build a permanent majority on quicksand and horse s--t. Turn off the lights before you go, okay Karl? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 742 Registered: 01-2005 |
Turd Blossom, I hadn't heard that was the nickname for Rove until just now. I hope for the good of the country that garbage political hacks like Tom Delay and Karl Rove will forever be in our rearview mirror. Three more to go. Bush, Cheney and Rice. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 603 Registered: 09-2006 |
Another line these perennial bible-quoters always seem to ignore when slinging their horses--t, one that fits this entire saga to a T: "Pride goeth before a fall." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1325 Registered: 03-2005 |
The current Atlantic Monthly has an interesting long article about Rove. Among his many faults, he totally failed to build relationships with the Republican Congress. I am no fan of Dick Armey who I always (wrongly) thought was a crook. Here is a tidbit he provided to the author (Joshua Green) of the article: "Dick Armey, the House Republican majority leader when Bush took office (and no more a shrinking violet than DeLay), told me a story that captures the exquisite pettiness of most members of Congress and the arrogance that made Bush and Rove so inept at handling them. 'For all the years he was president,' Armey told me, 'Bill Clinton and I had a little thing we'd do where every time I went to the White House, I would take the little name tag they give you and pass it to the president, who, without saying a word, would sign and date it. Bill Clinton and I didn't like each other. He said I was his least-favorite member of Congress. But he knew that when I left his office, the first schoolkid I came across would be given that card, and some kid who had come to Washington with his mama would go home with the president's autograph. I think Clinton thought it was a nice thing to do for some kid, and he was happy to do it.' Armey said that when he went to his first meeting in the White House with President Bush, he explained the tradition with Clinton and asked the president if he would care to continue it. 'Bush refused to sign the card. Rove, who was sitting across the table, said 'It would probably wind up on eBay,' Armey continued. 'Do I give a damn? No. But can you imagine refusing a simple request like that with an insult? It's stupid. From the point of view of your own self-interest, it's stupid. I was from Texas, and I was the majority leader. If my expectations of civility and collegiality were disappointed, what do you think it was like for the rest of the congressmen they dealt with? The Bush White House was tone-deaf to the normal courtesies of the office.'" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1655 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice post Randy. Sheds a whole new light on all concerned. |