Louisville KY: There Rove goes again (What Rubbish)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20060124&Category=OPINION01&ArtNo=601240343&SectionCat=&Template=printart

There may be depths to which Karl Rove wouldn't sink, but it's difficult to imagine what they might be.

Mr. Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, defended the administration's domestic eavesdropping program last week by saying that "President Bush believes if al-Qaida is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they're calling and why. Some important Democrats clearly disagree."

What rubbish. Once again, when this administration is challenged, it lashes out at the patriotism of its critics.

Mr. Rove (who is being investigated by a federal grand jury for possible involvement in the unpatriotic act of leaking the name of a CIA operative) would not be able to identify a single "important Democrat" who opposes monitoring all al-Qaida communications. He didn't even try.

[democrat_patriot]

1. Can Rove be indicted soon? That way he can

stop spouting this crap?

[Hestia]

2. GOP Hopes to "Spook" Democrats

GOP Hopes to "Spook" Democrats

January 22, 2006
by Len Hart

The details of another Karl Rove plan have come together. The Bin Laden tape is too conveniently a part of it to have been a mere GOP coincidence. The GOP rolled out the plan amid conflicting poll results. Zogby indicated Bush losing support among supporters; another poll showed Bush improving somewhat but indicating that "terrorism", as an issue, had become Bush's last redoubt.

Karl Rove has apparently acted upon that data at a time when the "war on terrorism" had become back page stuff. Even party moderates had said that the Bush specter of jihadists attacking inside U.S. borders was losing its sense of reality. Karl Rove, meanwhile, could be depended upon to act upon what he saw as weakness: Democrats "spooked"by suggestions that they are soft on terrorism.

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The "plan" is right out of the pages of a GOP "campaign manual":

1. The GOP gets a poll indicating good and bad news. The bad news is that the GOP gets whipped on every issue but terrorism. The "good" news for the GOP is, in fact, bad news for normal people; that is, bin Laden was allowed to get away at Tora Bora.

2. Bin Laden releases his latest production in which he both reviews and plugs a book, sounding more like an American blogger than an extreme, militant Islamic radical. But that's was the transparent trap set for the naive and the politically unwary. It's also better evidence that the tape was written by an American than it is evidence for Democratic "softness" on the issue of terrorism.

3. Rove's attack was most certainly planned in advance and its launch was timed.

more: http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a2094.htm