I think all this "they need new blood at the WH" talk is to ease Rove out

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6176351&cKey=1130710832000

Calls for White House shakeup focus on Karl Rove

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush, whose top adviser Karl Rove remains in jeopardy in a CIA-leak probe, needs to shake up his White House staff if he hopes to revive a presidency reeling from multiple setbacks, Republican and Democratic lawmakers said on Sunday.

The lawmakers also urged Bush to investigate the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, whose chief of staff, Lewis Libby, resigned on Friday and was indicted on perjury and other charges in connection with the probe. snip

"I think Karl Rove should step down," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said on ABC's "This Week."

Mississippi Republican Sen. Trent Lott said the Bush administration needed "new blood, new energy, qualified staff," and that he expected the president to address his problems.

"I'm not talking about wholesale changes, but you've got to reach out and bring in more advice and counsel," Lott said on "Fox News Sunday."

Rove remains under investigation in the probe into who leaked the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose diplomat husband is a prominent Iraq war critic. The White House's credibility has been hurt by disclosures that Rove and Libby leaked Plame's identity, despite earlier official denials attributed to the two men.

[SoCalDem]

1. Is 10,000 quarts of blood enough??

Adults have approx 5 quarts x 2000 killed = 10,000 quarts:cry:

[fearnobush]

2. So Rove could resign claiming family issues a week or two before

he is quietly indicted?

[hang a left]

4. Exactly.

They know he is going to be charged. They want it to look like * made him go BEFORE he was indicted. They think they are so fucking smart. They are so transparent.

[NNN0LHI]

5. That may have been the best deal he could come up with?

Bush could have asked for the delay for national security reasons or to finish up some important government business and Fitzgerald would have probably granted it.

Don

[kurth]

3. Will the puppet cry when the string is cut?

[snot]

6. There doesn't have to be any REAL termination--

Rove can be eased into some foundation job, but continue more or less the same duties, though at a somewhat greater distance.

[NNN0LHI]

7. Unless he ends up living in a penitentiary n/t

[WatchWhatISay]

8. What I don't get is why all the Republicans want to start with Andrew Card

Everytime one of them starts talking about "new blood", his is the first name they raise. It seems like a talking point from above to me. What has Card done? Nobobdy ever asks them why not Cheney/Rove/etc., why is it that Andrew Card should go?

I'm not defending him. Just wondering what he's done to offend them.

[cynatnite]

9. I think it's to avoid impeachment...

The RW knows it could very well happen since they set the bar so low. If they get rid of a bunch of people at the WH, they want people to think they got rid of the troublemakers. :eyes:

Then bush can say, 'we're starting over from scratch'. He knows how much trouble they are in.

[longship]

10. In that case, * needed new blood in Jan, 2000.

Leading from failure to failure (my use of the word leading here is very loose.) the neocons have accomplished nothing. They've tortured people in our name, and continue to do so. They've eroded our Constitutional rights, especially those in the Bill of Rights, in the name of "patriotism". They've waged war with no provocation and lied to the world, the public, and the Congress to achieve it. They've wasted vast sums of money on a privatisation mess that may take generations to unravel. They've adopted irresponsible positions on education, environment, science, and other academic areas which will haunt our country for years to come.

They have accomplished nothing.

The time for new blood in the White House was January, 2000. The new blood should have been the Albert Gore administration.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. They're trying to get rid of him for sure

He's causing them bad press and Bush's poll raitings lower. I wonder how he feels about that eh? Would Bush sacrifice Rove and have him step down publically? Remember when he said he would fire him if anyone was caught involved? For whatever reason he isn't doing that.