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Karl Rove to Resign at End of August
President Bush's Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, right, departs the White House with the president in this July 14, 2005, file photo. Rove, President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist, plans to leave the administration at the end of August, the White House said Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
Rove to Leave White House
ROVE RESIGNING: Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political strategist, announced Monday he will leave the White House at the end of August.
TRENDY MOVE: He joins a lengthening line of senior officials leaving in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration.
THINKING IT OVER: He first floated the idea of leaving to Bush a year ago, according to a newspaper interview.
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Finally!!
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#1 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:37 AM EDTBut the damage is already done. With this administration's time nearing its end this won't make any difference at all.
I'm just glad he's not joining any current candidate's campaign.
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I wouldn't be shocked to see him showing up on one of the Repub candidate's team sometime in the Fall.
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Karl Rove to Resign at End of August...Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:50 AM EDT
And they used my exact same picture!!
Karl Rove is Leaving!! .... — Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:44 AM EDT
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#2 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:06 AM EDTyes!
all these top officials leaving makes me wonder whats going on in there.
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#3 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:55 AM EDTFirst thing that came to my head:
Bye bye, Rove.
Bye bye, happiness.
Hello, loneliness.
I think I'm a-gonna cry-y.
(to the theme of the Everly Brothers' classic "Bye Bye Love")
#4 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:36 AM EDTMy guess is he is about to enter 'maximum stonewall' mode where he refuses to cooperate with direct congressional subpoenas in a gambit to run out the clock on the bush presidency - where he will be pardoned for any 'obstruction of justice' type charges if Bush is still in office.
What he wont do is get on the stand and perjure the @!$%# out himself any time soon because that would lead to indictments against more people in the bush administration. He resigned so Bush wont appear to be too close to him while the @!$%# hits the fan as slowly as the Bush team can manage the process.
I think the Bushies plan to run out the clock and then cut some kind of 'Let the HEALING begin' theatrical behind the scenes deal with the big business/ K-street Dems where the Bushies get the heck out of dodge and the new administration mouths a bunch of platitudinous garbage about how 'the nation needs to look forwards and not back...blah-blah-blah' (translation: we are NOT going to investigate & pursue crimes committed by the bush administration).
Rove leaving is a fig leaf of 'progress' given the ugly mood of the populace towards being under the thumb of a neo-con crime gang. There will be a few other semblances of 'progress' before Bush leaves office but these guys will all escape justice - and laugh at the 'American People' as we grind our teeth in frustration at not being able to do a damned thing about it once the 'healing begins'.
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#6 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:45 AM EDTYou forgot the part where Rove is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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This is just my scientific wild-ass guess, but I think that there's not much that came to the President or came out of the Oval office without Rove running his eyes over it. If you had to see the Prez or knock heads with him over some issue, or try to get him to say something in a news conference ("troop surge" comes to mind) I would suspect that Rove was a force to be reckoned with.
So that begs the question of who is going to take his place as Bush's designated hand-holder, gate guard, and political guru?
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