Rove not likely to survive inquiry

[kurth]

Sunday, October 23, 2005
Rove not likely to survive inquiry
MARGARET CARLSON

...Rove is showing the strain of the two-year inquiry. If he hadn't been so preoccupied, he surely would have limited the damage from the encampment of Cindy Sheehan at Bush's Texas ranch and sent the president off on his Gulf Coast storm watch before pictures of dead bodies flooded the airwaves. The nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was well down the track before Rove found out how serious Bush was about appointing his own lawyer, The Washington Post reported last week. By then, it was too late to do much about it. Although Rove got a high-profile walk across the South Lawn with Bush after he was first exposed as one of the leakers, he's been barely seen at all lately, much less with the president...

As Fitzgerald's quest winds down, the prospect of Rove surviving intact dwindles. Of course, if he's indicted, he'll be gone in a day. Bush can't have an indicted Rove a brainbeat away, although you have to wonder what substitute brain is going to convey that to Bush, whose valuation of loyalty falls somewhere between that of a college fraternity and the Crips. Even if Rove isn't indicted, we now know he had an attack of amnesia so severe that he was called in for another four hours on Oct. 14 to face the grand jury. The prosecutor apparently thinks it's wrong to participate in smears against those who tell the truth about the absence of weapons you started a war over.

The prospect of Rove leaving the White House one way or the other is so prevalent that speculation about a successor is already in the air, with Ed Gillespie leading the list... One impediment to Gillespie's appointment is how outspoken he's been about the seriousness of the leak. Two years ago on MSNBC TV's "Hardball,"' when host Chris Matthews asked whether the leak was more serious than Watergate, Gillespie said it was, in that it wasn't just about politics. "If the allegation is true -- to reveal the identity of an undercover CIA operative -- it's abhorrent, and it should be a crime, and it is a crime," Gillespie said Sept. 30, 2003...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/245478_carlson23.html

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The evil fat pig will just leave government and open his own shop making millions advising other evil pigs.

[hippiegranny]

1. funny line - says it all

"...Bush, whose valuation of loyalty falls somewhere between that of a college fraternity and the Crips."

[goclark]

2. He is one evil pig and I can't wait to see him exit

[LiberalinNC]

3. So when does kkkkarl receive his "pink slip" from the wh?

:evilgrin:

[unblock]

4. note that shrub's latest string of loser moves are just that --

his latest string of loser moves. it's not like, with rove, bush is brilliant and without rove, he's a disaster.

he's ALWAYS been a disaster and he's ALWAYS had a loooong string of loser moves.

the difference is that with rove, the media toes the banana republican line and portray shrub in a positive-only light. same loser moves, different media coverage.

that's the only real difference here. the media is currently not as tamed as they have been for the last 5 or 6 years. they're dangerously close to actually doing their jobs at times. the people are starting to see through to the truth, that the shrub house of card is all based on lie upon lie upon lie upon loser move upon loser move.

[enid602]

5. We'd probably be in Iran by now.

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. The Miers pick doesn't communicate Rove's distraction

It's the failure to SELL Miers that communicates it. There's a reason that Bush calls him Turdblossom. That Bush can say "I want this!" and Rove is able to um....make it happen says more about how Rove is able to craft a marketable plan. In other words, Rove doesn't choose WHAT gets sold, but Rove decides HOW to sell it.

[kweerwolf]

7. Loved this comment in the original post ...

The atmosphere was captured perfectly in the movie "The Birdcage," when a fictional senator, Gene Hackman, tried to escape reporters clamoring outside his house by climbing out a bedroom window. Greeted by popping flash bulbs, he turns and gives the V-sign, as if this was his usual means of exit and he was just thrilled by the attention.

Of course viewers familiar with "The Birdcage" know that in the end Gene Hackman (our erstwhile stand-in for KKKarl) had to dress in some really atrocious drag and make his escape through a gay bar filled with gyrating go-go boys.

Ahhhhhhhh. (picturing KKKarl dressed as a cross between Carmen Miranda and Joan Crawford at her most garrish amidst a gaggle of shirtless twinks and bouncing off-tempo to "We Are Family" while the papparazzi catch every glorious moment!)

[No Exit]

10. Hee hee hee--not Carmen Miranda and Joan Crawford,

Karl would have to dress as Totie Fields or maybe Hattie McDaniel.

[jaxx]

8. Merry Fitzmas follow-along-at-home scorecard.

http://www.takefive.d2g.com/scorecard.pdf

Now when can we start using it?

[thebigidea]

9. oh, but Carlson, what about the greaaaat food on the Bush campaign plane?

useless chipmunk!