Sooner Be Blue

Mostly politics, a few current events, a squirt of seltzer down yer pants .. a little blog for my rambles and rants.

2008/11/16

Don't go away mad, Karl, just go away.

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@ 06:20 AM (11 months, 26 days ago)

Deborah Solomon from the New York Times talked to Karl Rove about Barack Obama's victory, and it sure sounds like "Turd Blossom" (the president's affectionate nickname for him) is a little jealous.
 
"DS: Do you see the election results as a repudiation of your politics?
 
KR: Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in 2004, and he did so, in great respect, by adopting the methods of the Bush campaign and conducting a vast army of persuasion to identify and get out the vote.
 
DS: But what about your great dream of creating a permanent Republican governing majority in Washington?
 
KR: I never said permanent. Durable."
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/magazine/16wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=1&ref=washington&oref=slogin
 
Hey Karl, you got your math wrong, but I guess it's a little tough to downplay this -- Obama managed to get 365 electoral votes, 79 more than Bush got in 2004. Obama also got 52.6 percent of the popular vote -- the highest of any candidate of either party in 20 years, and the highest for a non-incumbent in 56 years.
 
I'm waiting to hear what Rove has to say about the GOP's loss of educated suburban voters, whose rejection of Palin's "real America" hard-righties gave Obama his winning edge in formerly red states -- Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Ohio and Indiana.
 
A lot has been said about minority and youth voters...but what really turned this election was the revolt of the smarts against the stupids.
 
As for Rove's vision for the Republican governing majority...thank goodness it was neither "permanent" nor "durable." Republicans controlled everything, carried out their policy agenda, failed miserably, and got crushed in subsequent elections -- one of which Rove promised GOP gains.
 
Conventional wisdom has Rove's politics of fear, his robo calls that stirred racial and xenophobic hate for political gain, as permanently damaging the GOP. The party may not survive.
 
Yet, we can't poo-poo his genius, after all he delivered the presidency to the least capable man in modern American history.
 
America was hijacked by Rove and the Bushies, but hopefully may soon be returned to the people. So many are counting on the Obama team to salvage the wreck they've inherited from those looting outlaws. Poor Barry, he's only human...but if it can be done, he's the guy who can do it.
 
How I wish that we could hold Rove, Cheney, and Bush accountable for war crimes, the manipulation of this country to falsely go to war in Iraq, contempt of Congress, warantless wire-tapping, illegal firing of US Attorneys to achieve a one-party rule, outing a CIA agent who was monitoring rogue states and nuclear proliferation...and on and on...
 
But right now I want Obama's government to concentrate on saving our country instead of wasting energy on a lot of investigations.
 
Oh, and notice how Karl sent out his resume:
 
""But if [Palin] wants to run for president she's gonna have to get somebody to move to Anchorage, Alaska and help her take her game to another level," he said smiling."
 
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jcNPgVnCRjXQ96LmAaqc2xae-btAD94EAFSO0
 

2008/11/4

Rove throws McCain under the Straight Talk Express

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@ 05:28 AM (12 months, 8 days ago)

Oops, sorry...that was 8 years ago.
 
"Rove Predicts Obama Landslide"
 
"Karl Rove's final electoral map predicts a Barack Obama electoral rout of 338 votes to John McCain's 200, "the largest electoral vote margin of any candidate since Bill Clinton in 1996." Rove has Obama winning swing states Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Virginia.[..]"
 
http://rove.com/election
 
Okay, Turd Blossom is a lying sack of poo and cannot be trusted...there must be a reason why he's putting his credibility on the line with this.
 
Just remember what a master manipulator he is..he could be making such a statement this close to the election to incite more Republicans to vote, while making Democrats think they won't need to.
 
We'll know by tonight.
 
Or Wednesday.
 
Surely by Christmas.
 
I hope.
 

2008/2/24

Attention Karl Rove freaks!

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@ 07:54 AM (20 months, 22 days ago)

The Big Sleazy wanted dirty pictures.
 
Don't tell me that Republicans are going to start running to the dreaded liberal media with their sorry tales of woe about how the White House made ‘em do it.
 
Jill Simpson, a former "opposition researcher" (a cleaned up term for smear and slime agent) for Karl Rove, is being interviewed tonight on 60 Minutes. She'll say he wanted her to take hanky panky pictures to prove an Alabama Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in an effort to derail the very successful politician’s re-election.
 
This isn't the first time...she testified to congressional investigators last year that she overheard conversations among Republicans in 2002 indicating that Rove was involved in the Justice Department's prosecution of Siegelman.
 
We all know how the Bush regime does business. It's why we cannot allow the telecoms to have immunity. If the Bushies were wiretapping before 9/11, there's only one reason they did--to get DIRT.
 
"GOP Operative: Karl Rove Sought To Smear Dem
 
60 Minutes: Woman Says Top Bush Adviser Asked Her To Take Compromising Pictures Of Alabama Gov. Siegelman
 
(CBS) A Republican operative in Alabama says Karl Rove asked her to try to prove the state’s Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in an effort to thwart the highly successful politician’s re-election.
 
...Simpson says she found no evidence of infidelity despite months of observation. She tells Pelley that Rove, who had been a top Republican strategist in Alabama, had made requests for information from her before in her capacity as an "opposition researcher" for Republicans running for office.
 
Rove would not speak to 60 Minutes, but elsewhere has denied being involved in efforts to discredit Siegelman.
 
...Siegelman was convicted of bribery in a case that has drawn criticism from Democrats and Republicans. In fact, 52 former states’ attorneys general from both political parties petitioned Congress to investigate Siegelman’s case, resulting in hearings held last fall.
 
"I haven’t seen a case with this many red flags on it that pointed towards a real injustice being done," Grant Woods, the former Republican attorney general of Arizona and one of those who petitioned Congress, tells Pelley. "I personally believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square."
 
Siegelman was the only politician in Alabama history to be elected to all four of the state’s highest offices of secretary of state, attorney general, lieutenant governor and governor, and he did it as a Democrat in the heavily Republican state."
 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/21/60minutes/main3859830.shtml
 
Hopefully, the next Attorney General will look into charges of obstruction of justice, and prove that Karl interfered with more than one prosecution for political reasons.
 
Please please please, if I can have only one Bush regime member frog-marched off in shackles and chains to prison, please please please let it be Karl Rove.
 
Seriously, if there's any justice in this world at all, Rove will one day spend time behind bars...but I'm not holding my breath.
 
Rove will probably be in the news for decades, as more and more of his schemes and dirty tricks gradually come to light. But he won't mind. It'll be history by then...and it'll keep his speaking fees up.
 
Never forget that Karl Rove was the "genius" who gave us our worst president in history, George W. Bush. Rove built him from the clay of a party-boy, draft-dodging, failed business man...creating the myth of the “cowboy” in a white hat who would right all wrongs in the world...a “common man you'd want to have a beer with."
 
Karl guided George into the governor's seat in Texas after that makeover. But first he had to get rid of a very popular Gov. Ann Richards...so he started a whisper campaign that the beloved grandmother was a lesbian.
 
BTW--I think it's telling that John McCain has cozied up to, and accepted a campaign contribution from, Karl Rove--after Rove trashed him and his family so savagely in South Carolina during the 2000 race. Remember the "illegitimate black baby"...who turned out to be McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh?
 
There is no limit to how low The Big Sleazy can go.

2008/2/4

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.

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@ 11:41 AM (21 months, 12 days ago)
(What with all the campaign frenzy, no one is going to mention this...so I will.)
 
Boy, that Karl Rove sure can do a lot of dirty business just using his phone and blackberry. Like "softening" the reports of the 9/11 Commission.
 
A Philip Shenon book coming out soon will reveal that Rove carried on back-room discussions with Philip Zelikow, the Commission's Executive Director, for a LONG time after the Commission told him to STOP speaking with White House Officials.
 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The September 11 commission's executive director had closer ties with the White House than publicly disclosed and tried to influence the final report in ways that the staff often perceived as limiting the Bush administration's responsibility, a new book says.
 
Philip Zelikow, a friend of then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, spoke with her several times during the 20-month investigation that closely examined her role in assessing the al-Qaida threat.
 
He also exchanged frequent calls with the White House, including at least four from Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser at the time.[..]"
 
http://tinyurl.com/2lcnrm
 
You know, one of the topics of conversation might've been those terror tapes that George Tenet never told the 9/11 Commission about.
 
Or, how about the obvious? That the entire Bush team poo-pooed Bill Clinton’s advice that their first priority ought to be Al Qaeda...and as a result lost any chance they had to prevent it?
 
Lost a chance to prevent 9-11 or gained a chance for a new Pearl Harbor?
 
http://www.themodernreligion.com/terror/thirty-year-itch.html
 
And ain't it funny that Zelikow was yakking it up with Rove on June 23, just when that whole Plame leak thang was brewing?
 
Nah...I highly doubt there is any connection between the two investigations. But I do think it's typical that Karl Rove was trying to obstruct two investigations at the same time.
 
Anyway...what will be the right-winger spin? Will they lead off with the usual ad hominem attacks, or will they use a Clinton deflection?
 
Let's sit back and wait ....