Posted on 11/18/2002 10:16:44 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
How powerful is special advisor to the president Karl Rove?
So powerful that he now occupies the White House office once commandeered by one-time co-President Hillary Clinton.
"Rove sits in Hillary Clinton's old West Wing office," reveals Time Magazine this week, adding, "and that's as good an image as any: he and the President have a long political marriage."
Occupying Hillary's old digs is a real coup for the Bush advisor. Mrs. Clinton was not only the first, first lady to have an office in the prestigious West Wing - she accepted it only when her husband refused to accede to her demands for the vice president's office.
Where Al Gore was to be relegated in Mrs. Clinton office plan is anybody's guess, but White House insiders have long maintained it was a close call for Mr. Clinton. Minutes before the 1992 presidential inauguration, the Clintons had a cursing, screaming battle over the dispute, according to Secret Service agents who overheard the verbal donnybrook.
"The office has the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing," Rove told Time's Hugh Sidey, adding that he first thought the mirror was installed by Mrs. Clinton. She insists, however, that it was there when she moved in.
If Rove has discovered any FBI files or old billing records during his short tenure, he didn't tell Sidey.
There is some reason to believe that that was her motivation.
Shortly before the filming of the 60 Minutes 'Gennifer Flowers, Standing by my man performance', Hillary asked Lloyd Cutler what she was going to get out of the deal. He asked her what she wanted. And she answered, "I want domestic." So, for agreeing to help her husband out of the whole Flowers problem, she was promised the entire domestic portion of Bill Clinton's job.
Now, if you look at the job of the President, how much of his job is NOT foreign relations? Something like 80%. So, I would conclude that Hillary WAS, in fact, the domestic president.
We got two-fer all right.
"The office has the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing,"
Another insight into the witche's metal meaness. She really thought that SHE was elected to office.Well she did state (60 Minutes 1992) that " when you elect him, you get me"....but NOT in White House 'pardons' meetings regarding the NY Jewish tax cheats or Puerto Rican Terrorists.
Hitlery believed it. At one point she angrily said, "We are the President".
Maybe in her mind the "we" included Sick Willie, but I doubt it.
By "we" she meant herself and the voices in her head.
adding that he first thought the mirror was installed by Mrs. Clinton.
She must be a masochist.
His legacy-- He revitalized demRATs.
"Hello, Mr. Rove. I believe you are in need of some help."
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