If only they'd gotten as choked up over all the people they've killed, all the children they've caused to be killed. (WARNING: Extremely graphic.)
No one for a minute believes that Karl "Turdblossom" Rove is leaving to spend time with his wife and son -- who's in college. He's leaving because he's suspected of criminal activities and, one imagines, those slow wheels of justice behind the scenes are finally rolling his way.
John Edwards got out the first best response: "Goodbye, good riddance." But Karl won't be gone, he'll be working out of the public eye to slime the Democratic Presidential candidate in that scummy, democracy undermining, possibly criminal way he's been doing since he started, back in the dirty trick-filled, Watergate-undermined, 1972 Nixon campaign.
Nor should he disappear, per Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI). They've both got questions for Rove. It'll be a showdown -- so-called "executive privilege" vs. justice.
I wouldn't lay any markers at this time.
The other nickname bestowed upon Rove by his master (puppet?), Mr. Bush, is "Boy Genius," for winning Mr. Bush's only successful elections. Successful as in successfully installing in power an Antichrist driving the world towards Armageddon. It turns out Rove's genius is of the most selfish kind, and has left his supposed "permanent majority" in shambles. No GOP leaders were praising Rove as he left, only Mr. Bush, no doubt the same fate that will befall Alberto Gonzales. Their Party hates them. Scratch that. Loathes them.
He knew how to win elections dirty, but he had no clue how to govern our great nation except to tear it down.
I'd like to think that Rove's departure signals the end of the Bush/Cheney Presidency but as long as those two madmen have their finger on the bomb and the military arrogance to attack Iran, none of us are safe. Until all these historical villains are replaced with new, non-Republican blood, our nation's infrastructure and social well-being are at risk.
My hunch has always been that at the bottom of the traitorously unconstitutional surveillance program has been the actual criminal activity of spying on political opponents for political gain, just like in Watergate but without the tapes and with a network of off-White House GOP email accounts. I expect much of this would have been to best John Kerry and the Democratic Party in the 2004 election. Maybe I'm wrong...but would you be surprised?
Why else are they pulling out all the stops, legal and otherwise, to avoid having to tell the truth?
2 comments:
Nice post. Great malefactors like Rove never “just leave” (see: Nixon, Kissinger, Mike Meyers, Grendel’s Mother); they’ll continue their evildoing in different venues until they’re covered w/ several cubic yards of dirt.
My guesses as to what’s behind yesterday’s partial fumigation of the West Wing? You can assume two things, no questions asked: a) Rove craves power beyond any limit of human decency (face it, to be successful in his line of work, this is pretty much a necessity), and b) not a single word from GWB or Rove’s mouth about his exit is true (natch).
I don’t make any claim to being ability to plumb the fetid fever swamp that is Bush’s Brain’s brain, but here are some possibilities:
1) He really wants to retire and leave politics. Okay, this is complete bullshit.
2) An indictment’s on its way. Only in our dreams; never happen. The fact that Henry Kissinger has walked the street a free man for the past 30 years is instructive.
3) He’s planning to work his dark arts for a 2008 candidate. He could name -- and receive – any astronomical price for ~ 12 months work. And I do mean astronomical (At what point would Mitt or Rudy say, “Oh no, that’s more than I want to pay to be president”?) If KKKarl did this I’d almost think he was human. (Also, commentators today seem unified in their belief that Rove’s reputation & legacy are in tatters. They seem to forget that twice he was able to put a nattering boob in the White House over far better qualified opponents. If he could pull off the same thing w/ any of the grossly unqualified republicans in the race today, you’re talking near mythic status for him until the end of time anywhere where ostensibly free elections are held.)
4) He’s killing time until he begins setting up Jebbie’s 2012 run. Possible. He’s been a lickspittle to the Bush crime family for 27 years, and as any consultant knows, there’s no better client than someone who’s simultaneously stupid, lazy and wealthy. The next few years are quite possibly going to be an economic and political disaster for the US as the sky is already darkening with chickens coming home to roost, and a lot of repubs are going to want to be well away from the scene of the crime until the sun comes out again.
5) He’s going to work under the radar for the RNC, performing truly heinous acts to try to rig as many 2008 elections as possible in order to put back on track his misbegotten plan for eternal Republican 1-party rule.
#5 is, of course, The Nightmare. I also think it’s the most likely.
Leahy and Conyers are saying all the right things at the moment, but I hope they truly understand that if being out from under the White House roof has lessened Rove’s legal protection at all, this is the time to put a stake through his livid heart once and for all.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Fingers crossed, hoping for full justice, but setting expectations oh so low.
Even Kenny Boy avoided penalties, and I believe he died at the perfect moment so his family could keep their ill-gotten gains.
Coincidence.
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