Pickles is on point.....Rove has done his work well......disgusting.

[NRaleighLiberal]

[RummyTheDummy]

1. Sorry....but this is beyond Rove's control

And for the record, we give that man way too much credit here at DU anyway.

[lpbk2713]

2. I'm not so sure, given Smirky's popularity rating.

His numbers are in the toilet over this and they know he needs a miracle to pull him out of this one.

[RummyTheDummy]

4. A mircale they won't get IMO

Beyond this debacle, they have high energy prices which were pissing off people even before this. Then you have the small matter of the Iraq war which we have lost. They're working from a defensive posture which is not their strength.

[BR_Parkway]

3. That's why it took 5 days - Karl had to teach two druggie/drunks their

lines and appropriate facial expressions (totally lost on Jr, but nothing new there)

He didn't dare let them out in public prior to now, lord only knows what either of them may have said without a memorized script.