Turd Blossom resigns!
Dang, I was sooo looking forward to a Karl Rove Perp Walk! There were certainly enough reasons for one -- Plame outing, election stealing, corruption, illegal emails, not showing up for subpoenas. And that's just the ones we know about. The harm he's done is almost beyond repair.
Oh dear, what will Commander Guy do now that his Brain is leaving him? Will he be completely adrift for the remainder? This will be interesting to watch.
From The Wall Street Journal: "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.
...."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," Rove said. [..]"
Family my left foot, I hope the threat of indictment is why he's running for the hills. Does it mean that he can no longer refuse congressional subpoenas?
Some people say he may be quitting, but he's not gone. Maybe he'll spend only a short time with his family, then sign on to run somebody's campaign. Fred Thompson is supposed to announce in early September. That seems sort of convenient. Or maybe worse -- Rudy/Bush II.
Then other people say the GOP party leadership wants him gone. He's cost them everything.
Remember his little demotion in the White House right after the Democrat victories in '06? He told the GOP that everything was going to be hunky-dory in '06 .. but they lost their majorities in both houses of Congress. So, maybe he's lost all credibility.
His eternal "play to the base" strategy seems to have backfired .. I'd bet any Republican running for office in 2008 wants to see this man as far from Washington, DC as possible.
I've read that some Republicans simply won't vote in the next election .. they want the GOP to step back for a few years to re-work the party. Let the Democrats try to clean up Bush's mess .. let them screw up for a while.
Rove's strategy delivered the goods in the short run, but destroyed a dominant party for many years to come in the long run. Fiscal conservatives are furious. Libertarians are furious. The military wing is increasingly furious. He's a marked man.
Shoot, he might even be hightailin' it because the turmoil in the stock market is only going to get worse in the coming weeks .. maybe he doesn't want to wait around to see the market upchuck the excesses of GOP economic policies.
A Republican friend wishes Rove had left “on his own terms” a few years ago .. that a change in political strategy this late in the game isn’t likely to do much good.
I find the suddenness surprising .. maybe he's "resigning" because something big is about to drop.
All I know is they'd better be careful .. Rove knows where all the bodies are buried.....
