ROVE "OUT"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/19/mcclellan/index.html

His first memory of George W. Bush was more precise. "It was the day before Thanksgiving, 1973," Rove said. "Chairman Bush´s chief of staff called me and said, 'I've got to be at a meeting on the Hill, the chairman´s got to be at a meeting at the White House, the other people in the office have already gone, and the eldest son is going to be coming down from Harvard. He's going to arrive at the train station, early afternoon. He'll call over here when he gets to the train station. Meet him down in the lobby and give him the keys to the family car." I can literally remember what he was wearing: an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, bulletins, complete with the-in Texas you see it a lot-one of the back pockets will have a circle worn in the pocket from where you carry your tin of snuff, your tin of tobacco. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/v3/07-13-2005.N1A_13BushRove.G331KVSU1.1.jpg

I WISH I COULD QUIT YOU

XPOST!!!

ROVE OUT!

it's like stating-the-obvious day

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), November 8th, 2006.

"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing people he didn't exist"

(j/k)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano_Prodi

"I'm out, say hi to your mum for me"

We will never ever bury the perception that each party will designate an evil genius for the opposition, and then make up shit to sell the cause.

i still think rove did some pretty brilliant and innovative things - problem is, his short-term plan ate his long-term plan.

Because he's only 5 for 6?

Doubtless. The potential next hosts will also remember his Pollyannaish ways before this election and wonder when he went a little nuts.

Even money odds says that he'll be a host/commentator on Fox News by the end of Bush's presidency.

exactly what i think every time i see this thread

Karl Rove, President Bush's longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, he said in an interview with Paul Gigot, editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page.

Mr. Rove, who has held a senior post in the White House since President Bush took office in January 2001, told Mr. Gigot he first floated the idea of leaving a year ago. But he delayed his departure as, first, Democrats took Congress, and then as the White House tackled debates on immigration and Iraq, he said. He said he decided to leave after White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten told senior aides that if they stayed past Labor Day they would be obliged to remain through the end of the president's term in January 2009.

"I just think it's time," Mr. Rove said in the interview. "There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family." Mr. Rove and his wife have a home in Ingram, Texas, and a son who attends college in nearby San Antonio.
[Karl Rove]

In the interview, Mr. Rove said he expects Democrats to give the 2008 presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom he described as "a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate." He also said Republicans have "a very good chance" to hold onto the White House in next year's elections.

Mr. Rove also said he expects the president's approval rating to rise again, and that conditions in Iraq will improve as the U.S. military surge continues. He said he expects Democrats to be divided this fall in the battle over warrantless wiretapping, while the budget battle -- and a series of presidential vetoes -- should help Republicans gain an edge on spending restraint and taxes.

Mr. Rove has advised Mr. Bush for more than a decade, working with him closely since Mr. Bush first announced he was running for governor of Texas in 1993 and serving as chief strategist in his presidential campaign in 2000. Before joining the White House, he was president of Karl Rove & Company, the Austin, Texas-based public affairs firm he founded. Mr. Rove first became involved in Republican politics in the 1970s.

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200611/r115264_363845.jpg

who are those smiley people?

The grinbot on the right has had its head unit fitted wrongly.

Rove's voice and face betrayed emotion as he then offered his farewell. ... Rove added that when he leaves, he will become one of those "ordinary Americans who tell you they are praying for you."

one brilliantly maddening career summed up in ten words

http://www.chakra.org/announcements/hare%20krishna.jpg

What libcrypt said, except I'd lay money that it'll be Fred Thompson.

I had totally forgotten Thompson was in Scorcese's Cape Fear

"ordinary Americans who tell you they are praying for you."

wtf, he's admitted he's agnostic.

I see someone else has already made a luda joke, so I'm outta here

And so I thank my friend. I’ll be on the road behind you here in a little bit.

ewwww

alternatively...

And so I thank my friend. I’ll be on the road behind you here in a little bit.

http://www.needlenose.com/i/swopa/RoveMarch.jpg
http://www.bartcop.com/frog-march-monkey.jpg

it would have been great if Bush gave him those jeans with the chewing tobacco tin imprint on the back pocket

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_reportage/bill_plantes_having_none_of_this_garden_party_64986.asp

As Karl Rove embraced President Bush today following an emotional farewell announcement on the South Lawn, the solemnity of the moment was shattered by Bill Plante of CBS, who bellowed to Bush: "If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?"

HA haa ha!

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/08/three-guesses-w.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20253121/site/newsweek/?nav=slate?from=rss

I dunno. it's bad when the rats start jumping off the boat. is that the White Star Band I hear playing..?

you mean WHITESTARR?!!?

he won't be joining a campaign. the Dems have a built-in upper hand, so he has to work to bring their candidates down without being associated with either the white house or any candidate. none of this compassionate conservatism stuff this time around.

is that picture of rove being arrested real or shopped?

it's a shop of the george bush picture below it.

tpm has been going nuts over this larry craig cruising story, it's kind of... offputting

08.27.07 -- 6:42PM // link

Best Legal Defense of 2007

A reader pointed me to this portion of the Roll Call report on the arrest of Sen. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig (R-ID), as recounted by the arresting officer:

In a recorded interview after his arrest, Craig “either disagreed with me or ‘didn’t recall’ the events as they happened,” the report states.

Craig stated “that he has a wide stance when going to the bathroom and that his foot may have touched mine,” the report states. Craig also told the arresting officer that he reached down with his right hand to pick up a piece of paper that was on the floor.

I should point out--though I really don't want to--that Craig was seated on the toilet at the time, according to the report.

--David Kurtz

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_go_pr_wh/rove_s_car

Rove's car is easily recognizable because of its "I love Barack Obama" bumper sticker

talking points memo has a genuine knack for sniffing out scandal and corruption and hyping each thing it finds as some monumental crack in the facade of our etc.; on policy issues that actually affect the lives of americans it is almost completely silent

in response to that criticism, here is the kind of thing tpm would write:

"Some of you have noticed that we focus on scandal and corruption reporting at the expense of policy pieces, or 'issues'. I don't think that's entirely fair, but I'll admit there's a kernel of truth there. None of us are whitepaper wonks. We like the thrill of the hunt. And there's nothing wrong with that, in my opinion. So we'll keep plowing this furrow. I think we've been pretty successful so far. If our reporting stands up, it stands up. We'll let it speak for itself. And I think it has spoken volumes. [continues for several paragraphs]"

ok the rove car thing is some gallows humor because how the FUCK did the perps manage to pull that off in a parking lot adjoining the west wing? Unless they were doing it with SS complicity from high up, which I suppose is possible.

I mean the story isn't accompanied by a list of secret service officers who are being suspended without pay so I'm assuming it was WH staff who did it

^ get a load of Columbo here ;)

http://www.holmesonscreen.com/Brett18.jpg

we haven't seen a list of fired officers because they've all been shipped off to either Guantanamo or Syria for interrogation.

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Bush-Heartbroken-Jump.jpg

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/heartbroken_bush_runs_after_0

the only larry craig threads i could find are on ire, wtf

anyway, this is getting weirder and weirder. misplaced phone message? specter keeping it alive? now mitch mcconnell, too? awesome.

Specter "Out"?

oh you

is this one of those "the senate is clubby" things?

Mysterious outages during 60 minutes about Don Siegelman raise questions:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/parts-of-60-minutes-bro_b_88218.html

(ok duh - it's on F*rk too)

what questions do they raise? "is america a democracy?" "what the fuck is the purpose of the FCC?" "is this still a nation of laws?"

As I Rove out on a bright May morning
To view the meadows and flowers gay
Whom should I spy but my own true lover
As she sat under yon willow tree

The outages were too specific to be coincidental, they're alleging:

Excuse me? Are they trying to tell us that a glitch in New York ONLY happened in Alabama -- which is the topic of the 60 Minutes broadcast -- and ONLY during the Don Siegelman segment? Are you kidding me? We have selective prosecution and now we have selective news delivery?

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/update-on-the-m.html
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002487

I contacted CBS News in New York and was told that “there is no delicate way to put this: the WHNT claim is not true. There were no transmission difficulties. The problems were peculiar to Channel 19, which had the signal and had functioning transmitters.” I was told that the decision to blacken screens across Northern Alabama “could only have been an editorial call.”Channel 19 is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, who can be contacted through Rhonda Barnat, 212-371-5999 or r✧@ab✧✧✧.c✧✧ . Oak Hill Partners represents interests of the Bass family, which contribute heavily to the Republican Party. Viewers displeased about the channel’s decision to censor the broadcast should express their views directly to the station management or to the owners."

lol amerika

I'd like to see Obama go down to Alabama and ask why the tv station decided that Northern Alabamans weren't allowed to watch that tv broadcast.

PENN OUT

i keep hearing this in my head like "seacrest, out."

I got my twin glock .40s, cocked back
Me and my homies, so drop that
We rollin on twenties, with the top back
So much money, you can't stop that
Twin glock .40s, cocked back
Me and my homies, so drop that
We rollin on twenties, with the top back
So much money, you can't stop that

Rove 'out'?

The Oval Office is an incredibly powerful place. It is the epitome of American democracy. You cannot imagine how powerful that office is on the psyche of people.

My office was 20 steps from the Oval Office. I'd have members of Congress come into my office and say, "By God, the president's screwing this up." They'd be a little bit more colorful than that.

They'd say, "I'm gonna go in there today for my meeting, and by God, I'm gonna tell him what's going wrong and what he needs to do. And by God, he needs to hear it from me 'cause he's not hearin' it from anybody else. I'm gonna go in there and tell him what for."

I'd escort them into the Oval Office, and they'd say, "Mr. President, you're lookin' damn pretty today."

Really.

Uh.

Is it an insult to Chic if I hear the phrase "ROVE OUT!" to the tune of "Le Freak"?

Not if Rove wants to live his life with some real people.

Is it an insult to Chic if I hear the phrase "ROVE OUT!" to the tune of "Le Freak"?

See, I've got a certain Luda track stuck in my head as a result of this thread title.

ROVE OUT