Posted on 08/13/2007 1:31:30 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Karl Rove to Resign At the End of August By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter August 13, 2007 4:00 a.m.
Karl Rove, President Bush's longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, he said in an interview with Paul Gigot, editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. (See related editorial1.) [nowide] 'THE MARK OF ROVE'
Read the editorial2 by The Wall Street Journal's editorial page editor, Paul Gigot, on his interview with Karl Rove.
Mr. Rove, who has held a senior post in the White House since President Bush took office in January 2001, told Mr. Gigot he first floated the idea of leaving a year ago. But he delayed his departure as, first, Democrats took Congress, and then as the White House tackled debates on immigration and Iraq, he said. He said he decided to leave after White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten told senior aides that if they stayed past Labor Day they would be obliged to remain through the end of the president's term in January 2009.
"I just think it's time," Mr. Rove said in the interview. "There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family." Mr. Rove and his wife have a home in Ingram, Texas, and a son who attends college in nearby San Antonio. [Karl Rove]
In the interview, Mr. Rove said he expects Democrats to give the 2008 presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom he described as "a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate." He also said Republicans have "a very good chance" to hold onto the White House in next year's elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
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Hopefully, he’s leaving to work on some Republicans campaign. I know he’s tired though. Who wouldn’t be after being vilified daily—nay, hourly!
I’ll miss that magnificent bastard.
wtf?
Rove for President!
NOOOOOO! Don’t let the RATS win, Karl!
I kind of believe that Karl Rove would have liked to stepped down sooner, however this is likely the earliest he can do so without the rats being able to claim some sort of twisted victory. They will anyways, but there's no recent scandal in the publics "current" memory, so no impact.
Too bad he doesn’t take Jorge back to Texas with him!
Interesting...
As long as he still has his weather machine...
Changing the weather Americans won’t change.
would he still be able to claim executive priviledge and tell Congress to get lost?
Now if only Joe would go away...
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I hear he has perfected his mind-control machine so it works at a distance. Now he can run the country in his jammies from Texas.
I wish him well, we were lucky to have him as long as we have. I guess all the Dem anger will be focused on our VP Cheney now that they won’t have Karl to pick on anymore.
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