Reply #3: Dubya's dilemma

[Fovea]

He really does need the intellectual efforts and rude talents of others. Bush in an empty boot, and he needs guidance.

Secondly, Rove is not a bit player, he is a major mover, and knows everything that Dubya cannot have known.

Thirdly, I doubt there is a city in America where Karl Rove could walk 5 blocks without security and survive. Karl has no real friends who are not in jail except Grover Nosetwist and George Bush... And George is pissed.

So now the party tells him FU by returning Trent Lott to power. George cannot kick Karl to the Curb without fear that Karl will kick back. So as paranoid as this makes me sound, either ** will have to except that he is getting no love from even his own party in congress (dangerous in an investigation rich environment) or he will have to do something that solves the Rove dilemma without risk of Rove reprisals.

If you were GWB, how would you accomplish this? Perhaps Harkin Oil, or Spectrum7, or something from his Govship of Texas can inform us.

But I suspect that Bush is going to simply accept that he is the lamest of Ducks, but one with a temporary license to kill vis a vis PATRIOT and Mil Comm Act.
Can Karl be declared a terrorist? Many Dems might agree with this.

Added-- Sadly Wolfie is screwing up at the world bank. If I were George, I would replace Bolton with Karl. After all, the world already hates us.