Posted on 08/13/2007 9:37:40 AM PDT by SmithL
Reaction to Karl Rove's announcement Monday that he is resigning as President Bush's top political strategist:
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Karl Rove was an architect of a political strategy that has left the country more divided, the special interests more powerful, and the American people more shut out from their government than any time in memory. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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We worked together so we could be in a position to serve this country. And so I thank my friend. I'll be on the road behind you here in a little bit. — President Bush.
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Mr. Roves apparent attempts to manipulate elections and push out prosecutors citing bogus claims of voter fraud shows corruption of federal law enforcement for partisan political purposes, and the Senate Judiciary Committee will continue its investigation into this serious issue. The list of senior White House and Justice Department officials who have resigned during the course of these congressional investigations continues to grow ... There is a cloud over this White House, and a gathering storm. — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Senate Judiciary Committee chairman.
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Karl Rove has made an enormous contribution to our country and our party. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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Karl Rove's resignation signals the final chapter in the Bush administration's betrayal of the identity of a covert CIA officer. When this breach of national security occurred, the president promised the American people that anybody in his administration responsible for the leak would be removed. Rove, identified by the prosecutors as one of the leakers, not only was not summarily dismissed, but has been allowed to leave on his own terms, to praise from the president. — Former Ambassdor Joseph Wilson, whose wife, Valerie Plame, was the CIA officer whose name was disclosed by Rove and others.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I’m just guessing, but I wonder if he’s off to the Romney camp?? Isn’t Rove a Mormon?
Lets Move Rove! Time to Work on 2008.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Hey, Joe! You’re wife wasn’t covert.
'Rats like him and Waxman won't be satisfied until many patriots are imprisoned. They've got blood on their teeth.
My reaction?
(Shrug)
People come and go throught the duration of all administrations.
We worked together so we could be in a position to serve this country. And so I thank my friend. I’ll be on the road behind you here in a little bit. — President Bush.
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That W is indeed a class act.
They never give up do they? Rove was not ever part of the scheme to out Valerie Plame, period. It was a malcontent at the State Department who ‘mistakingly’ told a reporter she worked for the CIA.
The whole Plame affair, starting with the bogus information that her hubby provided after his trip to Africa, was a CIA operation to cause problems for the administration.
I know I sound like a broken record, but you simply can’t let mis-statements and outright lies like this go unchallenged or uncorrected.
His parents are, IIRC. He has proclaimed himself an agnostic, I think.
“We worked together so we could be in a position to serve this country. And so I thank my friend. I’ll be on the road behind you here in a little bit. — President Bush.”
“We worked together so we could be in a position to serve this country...”
Yeah. Hot and cold running illegal invaders. And an increasing presence of Muslims in America, not to mention getting bogged down in Iraq, while the Ayatollahs in Iran continue to threaten us with nuclear destruction.
“I’ll be on the road behind you here in a little bit.”
But not before he lets in a few million more illegal invaders.
I would like to thank Karl Rove for helping to put a Republican in the office to replace two of the SC judges.
Thanks Karl and God Bless.
Those of us in the know realize that Rove is just going undercover to pave the way for the Chimpy McHitler / Shotgun Cheney Imperial Dynasty / Martial Law / Military Takeover / New World Order coup to coincide with the 2008 elections.
First stop for Rove is Venezuela for consultations with Chavez about constitutional law; then Iran to get the mullahs’ take on establishing a US theocracy.
Oh yeah, and he’s stopping by China to deliver a load of high tech secrets...
He’s going to sell the plans for The Magic Hurricane Machine to the Chinese?
Any bets on when Valerie-Wannabe-Girl-From-U.N.CL.E.-Plame will strip for Playboy magazine?
I can’t help but laugh at the Dems whining today.
And I seriously doubt Rove will get involved in any campaign for 2008. Its my guess he’s going to have one helluva book, and one helluva book deal in the works.
And I’m damn sure going to buy it.
not one single good word from any democrat, enough said.
He's gonna give the plans to the Chinese.
And show them how to get to the moon through the back door...
Joe and Valerie Plame are both Clintonoids set in place to stir up trouble and they did their jobs. However, Carl Rove also did his job and though I don’t agree he did always did great (especially on immigration) he helped when we really needed it most: Senate majority leadership in 2002 & 2004 so that we could get 2 great Supreme Court Justices in Alito and Roberts...If he did nothing else, he helped move the court to the Right! To win back the Congress majority requires strong R candidates and lots of voters fed up by the dems...
Washingtonienne Part II
I trust this device is now in capable hands and will be destroyed before Hillary becomes president.
I watched a feature about Wilson and his wife on Hannity last night on Fox. Hannity kept calling her “Mrs. Wilson”. I just loved it. You know she watched, and you know how angry that made her. Hee hee hee!!
Maybe he got a new job as one of the FR admin moderators...
If that is the case, let me be the first to say, "Rove, you Magnificent Bastard!"
; )
Anything is possible. One guy I know told me he thinks Rove is going to work for Hillary...
It's a strange world we live in.
MSM already has Bush dead and gone and the Republican party left with one foot in the grave according to Reuters.
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent1 hour, 25 minutes ago
The resignation of Karl Rove, architect of President George W. Bush’s election triumphs and a crucial behind-the-scenes policy guru, is the latest sign of the White House’s diminished agenda and shattered dreams of a Republican super-majority, analysts said.
Rove, the last and most prominent of Bush’s inner circle of Texas advisers to quit the administration, leaves a lame-duck president suffering from low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iraq and public rejection in the 2006 elections.
With Democrats in control of Congress and brimming with optimism about the 2008 White House race, Rove’s talk of a lasting and historic shift to Republican dominance seems long ago.
“This closes the chapter where George Bush and Karl Rove thought they were building a new Republican majority that would last a generation. That is clearly off the table,” said Cal Jillson, a political analyst at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.......
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I am amazed (though I shouldn’t be surprised) at the blatant unabashed, shameful lying by Joe Wilson.
I hear Rove is going to work for Fred Thompson
I can honestly say that as a kid in small town America in the 1950’s you could not have convinced me I would grow up to find an America where such out and out, blatant lying would be not only unpunished but spread by the mainstream press.
He is more Dangerous to the left now that he is out of WH,
I heard it’s behind the scenes,with Thompson.
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