Rove calls Al Gore "one angry dude," says 2000 Florida ballots are "in my garage"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Karl Rove has very few regrets. At an intense Q&A yesterday, the senior adviser to President George W. Bush defended the Administration on everything from the Iraq war, to campaign tactics, to its response to Hurricane Katrina. On the invasion of Iraq, Rove said that one of the few things he would have changed is coming out against the critics -- including Democrats who had voted for the invasion -- sooner when it was determined that there were no weapons of mass destruction.

"You've got to either hold everybody accountable, or you've got to drop this myth," said Rove, who recently admitted to the error. "This pernicious, corrosive, hypocritical lie that Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction."

The event, which took place at the 92Y in Manhattan was in honor of the release of Rove's new memoir, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight, was hosted by CNN's Gloria Borger and covered a broad range of topics.

For every tough question Borger threw at him, Rove had a defense.

When Borger asked him jokingly, "now that the 2000 election is over, where are the Florida ballots?" Rove answered, "In my garage," to uproarious laughs from the audience. He described Al Gore as, "one angry dude."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/karl-rove-terms-al-gore-o_n_495361.html

[sakabatou]

1. Fucking SOB

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. He's just like Cheney

He knows that he got away with it, and he'll spend the rest of his life thumbing his nose at the people who let him go.

[tallahasseedem]

2. Wow, he's one funny guy!

Now why the hell isn't this guy in jail?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

7. What crime has he been accused of?

[LakeSamish706]

12. He was served a Subpoena by Congress and chose to ignore it. To me thats a crime.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

19. Congress should have charged him with contempt.

[LakeSamish706]

21. Yep, and he should be behind bars as someone else here said. n/t

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. CNN, July 11, 2006:

Novak: Rove confirmed Plame's identity

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/11/cia.leak/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, the syndicated columnist wrote Tuesday.

Novak said Rove confirmed information from another source, whose identity Novak is still keeping under wraps.

But he said special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knows the source's identity, and Novak said he does not think that person will be charged with unmasking now-former CIA agent Valerie Plame.

He also wrote that prosecutors have told him his role in the investigation is over.

"I have been subpoenaed by and testified to a federal grand jury. Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue," Novak wrote in a column released for publication Wednesday.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

18. It doesn't appear that confirming a story is a crime.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

22. Valerie Plame was a a CIA covert operative...this was significantly more than "confirming a story."

The name of Valerie Plame Wilson (nee Valerie Elise Plame), wife of retired U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, was exposed on July 14, 2003, as a CIA covert operative by columnist Robert Novak, who wrote:

"Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate" the allegation.<1>

According to the September 27, 2003 edition of JustOneMinute (JOM), on July 16, 2003, David Corn "started this scandal" when he published the piece "A White House Smear" in The Nation, wherein he wrote:

"This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent." <2>

Corn "had predicted that the investigation would die in the CIA—George J. Tenet would stay loyal to George W. Bush and quash this." JOM adds: "Evidently not. One guess—Mr. Tenet, pondering Bush's declining poll numbers and faced with in-house annoyance, decided to do the right thing. One presumes that, with Congress back in town, Mr. Tenet checked with his supporters on both sides of the aisle before proceeding."

Both Mark Kleiman and Josh Marshall had made recent comments on the matter, according to JOM.

On July 1, 2005, MSNBC Senior Political Analyst, Lawrence O'Donnell claimed that the leak came from Karl Rove. <3>

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Valerie_Plame

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

23. Your earlier story said that Novak testified that Rove confirmed the story, not that he leaked it.

[Maccagirl]

4. "In my garage"

Stop it Karl...you're killing me. I mean it...you're killing me.

[daleo]

5. He mocks decent people

He jokes about stealing an American election, then jokes about an illegal war. Despicable doesn't begin to cover it.

[RexS]

6. Once again, the Dems voted based on false information given

to them from the BUSH ADMINISTRATION. Sigh. Karl, karl, kkkarl...you will one day roast in the lake of fire, enjoy your pathetic lifespan while you can kid.

[troubledamerican]

8. Why so obsessed, Karl? Gore's barely a public figure anymore.

[Initech]

9. One mystery down, maybe he can tell us who killed JFK next.

[XOKCowboy]

10. For once I agree with the slimy SOB

"You've got to either hold everybody accountable, or you've got to drop this myth," said Rove, who recently admitted to the error. "This pernicious, corrosive, hypocritical lie that Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction."

He's right. Without prosecution they get away with war crimes.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. New York Times, November 8, 2006:

Pelosi: Bush Impeachment `Off the Table’

By Susan Ferrechio
Published: November 8, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/11/08/cq_1916.html

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi promised Wednesday that when her party takes over, the new majority will not attempt to remove President Bush from office, despite earlier pledges to the contrary from others in the caucus.

“I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said during a news conference.

Pelosi also said Democrats, despite complaining about years of unfair treatment by the majority GOP, “are not about getting even” with Republicans.

She said the GOP, which frequently excluded Democrats from conference committee hearings and often blocked attempts to introduce amendments, would not suffer similar treatment.

“Democrats pledge civility and bipartisanship in the conduct of the work here and we pledge partnerships with Congress and the Republicans in Congress, and the president — not partisanship.”

She also extended an olive branch to Bush on the war in Iraq, saying she plans to work with him on a new plan but will not support the current strategy and supports beginning redeployment of troops by the end of the year.

[XOKCowboy]

29. And once again Dems are seen as spineless and the guilty make millions gloating about it

I hate to say it but we need a Lee Atwater type to fight back in the only manner the Republicans understand. Bipartisanship = Capitulation.

[LakeSamish706]

11. So what happened to the Subpoena's that Rove got from Congress?

Someone needs to stand up to these slugs, and put them where they belong and you can take your choice on that.

[onehandle]

14. onehandle calls Karl Rove "one closet case." nt

[opihimoimoi]

16. The Dude is UnAmerican as they come...Pure EVIL....Attention Whore to boot

He escaped Therapy and/or Rehab

He is NOT A NORMAL GUY....

[RainDog]

17. gawd I would love to bitch slap that bastard

he has got to be one of the most worthless pieces of shit to walk this planet.

[Jennicut]

20. Al Gore actually handled the whole thing with a lot of grace. I wouldn't have been so nice.

[mnhtnbb]

24. Rove is, without a doubt, one of the most evil people on the planet.

[upi402]

25. Team Obama and Clinton-Republicans will never look into it

:puke: :mad:
I want my party back!

[cameozalaznick]

26. "One angry dude..."

KKKarl... Projecting much?

[Hekate]

27. Little Turdblossom, how can we miss you when you won't drop dead?

:freak:

[Patsy Stone]

28. Asshole.

Rude vile pig.

[global1]

30. The Sad Thing About This Is That Rove Will Be Back ........

He - they - got away with literally murder and treason - and - you know what - the Repug's will be back in power one day and he will be back.

[w4rma]

31. Insanity. (nt)

[TheWatcher]

32. Fucking Nazi.

[Mind_your_head]

33. NONE of that is in the least bit funny.

MILLIONS of people around the WORLD ..... around the WORLD marched before the invasion of Iraq. MILLIONS of people know right from wrong....STILL!

Rove. Lying b*stard ~ spin-meister extra-ordinaire.

Rove has 'few regrets' b/c nobody can catch him with an altar-boy..... that doesn't mean that the 'rove' isn't evil.

edir: typo