Archive for the 'Rove' Category

Bush lied??? To get re-elected??? N’ah…

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

The following excerpt is from the November 20, 2007 POLITICO story about Scott McClellan’s book’s revelations about the deceit used during the Plame affair.
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“Shortly after news of the McClellan excerpt broke, Politico caught up with Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, two reporters who received information about Valerie Plame’s identity and were caught up in […]

It’s still more edifying than a pumpernickel seed which resembles the Virgin Mary.

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

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Navy to alter swastika-shaped barracks
Associated Press
Wed Sep 26, 2:20 PM ET
CORONADO, Calif. - The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, a gaffe that went largely unnoticed before satellite images became easily accessible on the Internet.
The Navy said officials noted the […]

Rove: Bush Will Be Remembered As A ‘Far-Sighted Leader’

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

World: Rove will be remembered as a delusionally treasonous prick.
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Yesterday, outgoing White House adviser Karl Rove penned a piece in the National Review devoted to extolling President Bush’s greatness and predicting that “history will provide a more clear-eyed verdict on this president’s leadership than the anger of current critics would suggest.”
The White House liked it […]

David Gregory is the man who backed up Rove’s embarassingly banal rapping for the White House/Press Corps A**-grabbing dinner.

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Matt Cooper Says Rove DID Leak Valerie Plame’s Identity To Him: UPDATED!
By: Logan Murphy on Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 10:20 AM - PDT
Following Karl Rove’s appearance this morning on “Meet The Press” David Gregory (who is involved in the Plame scandal. More on that later.) held a round table discussion which included former Time […]

By the end of the Summer, he’ll be ready for auction at the Texas State Fair.

Monday, August 20th, 2007

How Rove Directed Federal Assets for GOP Gains
Bush Adviser’s Effort to Promote the President and His Allies Was Unprecedented in Its Reach
By John Solomon, Alec MacGillis and Sarah Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 19, 2007; Page A01
Thirteen months before President Bush was reelected, chief strategist Karl Rove summoned political appointees from around the government to […]

Thanks…but no thanks…for the memories.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Rove’s Blind Spot
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By Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, August 15, 2007; Page A11
Decades from now, historians will have trouble fathoming why Karl Rove’s contemporaries hailed him as a genius. An expert practitioner of wedge politics, in the tradition of Lee Atwater? Sure. But architect of an enduring Republican majority? The great realigner? What were the pundits of 2002 […]

They use a cage in Chuck-A-Luck, but contestants have a better chance than African-Americans have with W’s thugs.

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

PBS
7.27.07
Voter Caging
Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004?
Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections?
This week NOW examines documents and evidence that points to a Republican Party plan designed to keep Democrats from voting, allegedly by targeting people based on their race and ethnicity with key battleground states like […]

George, it may be too late for W. His policy can be likened to a cell phone.

Monday, July 16th, 2007

July 16, 2007
GOP senator to Rove: Bush legacy on the line in Iraq
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Voinovich told CNN he has warned Karl Rove that the president needs to salvage his legacy.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Republican senator says he warned top White House aide Karl Rove that President Bush quickly needs to craft a workable plan to withdraw U.S. […]

I believe my Father was correct.

Friday, June 15th, 2007

After watching some 1950’s documentary on the Holocaust, I said to my Dad that I could understand an individual like Hitler, but where did he find all his henchmen. My Father replied that those people are always out there. They simply wait for the right person to use their uniquely sociopathic skills.
It certainly works for […]

People like this insure that we will continue to see the Best & the Brightest elsewhere.

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Posted on Tue, Jun. 12, 2007
Officials rebuked for disclosing Rove’s connection to firing of U.S. attorney
By Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The White House’s former political director was furious at Justice Department officials for disclosing to Congress that the administration had forced out the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., to make way […]

Judge Reggie Walton–D.C. Hero.

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

David Broder’s Post column illuminiates the issue with a Caravaggio clarity.
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Images: (Painting) Ecce Homo by Caravaggio via castelmeteo.it; (Fitzgerald) Getty Images via cache.boston.com; (Rover) via axisoflogic.com; (Scooter) AP/ Wide World Photos via motherjones.com;
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Please find the column here.