WP: Hughes's Return Is a Blow for Rove

[DeepModem Mom]

Dan Froomkin
Hughes's Return Is a Blow for Rove
Friday, Mar 11, 2005; 12:39 PM


In the three years since Karen Hughes left the White House and her job as counselor to the president, political strategist Karl Rove has increasingly had the run of the place.

The news today that Hughes is coming back means there'll be someone to keep him in check again.

It's not like Hughes and Rove don't agree about a lot of things; they do. They've both been among Bush's top advisers since long before he came to Washington, and they are both ruthlessly effective in pursuing their boss's agenda.

But while Hughes is utterly devoted to Bush, Rove is utterly devoted to building a lasting Republican majority.

And to the extent that there are some areas where those two goals don't entirely overlap, no one in the White House lately has been able to counterbalance Rove like Hughes used to....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. they're all scum

[VegasWolf]

2. Karen Hughes is no more than a scaly rash between Roves toes.

[xultar]

16. I thought he had the hoofed foot kinda like what the devil would have

you know man on top horse in the back...:evilgrin:

[Straight Shooter]

3. Hughes is "utterly devoted" to bush?

What kind of tripe is that? That brief descriptiton makes her look like a dipwad schoolgirl with a crush on the punk kid who's always cutting class. :eyes:

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Is it possible that's not far off the mark? nt

[0007]

18. Except that Karen has a long scaly tail

[Lisa]

11. in that case, it sets up an interesting conflict between her and Condi ...

... what with Condi accidentally referring to Bush as "my husband" once (and the two of them actually did impersonate husband and wife, when they snuck off to the airport for the plastic turkey stunt).

[Fridays Child]

19. Shave her head and you'll solve the Jeff Gannon mystery.

Hmm...

[Cha]

22. Has anyone seen those two

in the same room together?

[Guckert]

4. Bush is preparing for Roves departure when he is implicated for Plame case

Or pics of him and Gannon making the beast with two backs???

[riverwalker]

6. I smell a skunk

I think they are sliding Hughes into position in case Rove suddenly resigns "to spend more time with his family" due to heat from the Gannon/Guckert affair.

[whistle]

13. Rove will be spending more time with Gannon/Guckert as their

...affair continues. As for Karen Hughes, her job is to be PR director for the image of the United States abroad? Give me a break, she is there as always to prop up shrub's sorry ass!

[doublethink]

7. But I thought Gannon ....

was blowing Rove? :crazy:

[autorank]

9. haha ROFLMAO, you beat me to it! (Gannon style, no marks, lasting

impressions) WELCOME TO DU!!! You fit right in (that's a compliment)

[doublethink]

15. Thanks !

Good to be here ... :beer:

[DeepModem Mom]

10. A guilty LOL! Welcome to DU, doublethink!

[doublethink]

17. I'll drink to that too ...

:beer: hell why not ... it's friday!

[hippiechick]

8. They don't really think KKKarl's going to fade away quietly, do they ?

People have a way of ... ahem ... retiring when they get in his way. I suspect now that he's completely gorged and addicted to power, the ugly little monster will be even more ruthless.

But, it will be nice to see them eat their own for once.

[Fovea]

12. Hughes better watch her back

or she will get rat shot too.

[rzemanfl]

14. Even Karen Huge (sic) wouldn't blow that asshole. n/t

[applegrove]

20. I'm with the people who say Rove is shoving Bush out of the WH

so Karl can take his rightful office and Karen is back because Karl no longer has time for Shrub and somebody has to fill the hollowed out wooden puppet full time or Bush begins to notice the void and turns red and falls apart. If Bush does not have his thinking completely controlled then he may believe his own press and want back into his office.

Karl has a world to take over!

[lala_rawraw]

21. Are you sure that should not read to blow Rove?

Sorry, could not resist. Feel free to slap me:)

[Cha]

23. Yeah, probably just a

typo! ;)

[lyonn]

24. What post does Bush need to fill?

Maybe!! Negroponte won't make UN and Rove will fill spot. In any case Rove would get a choicy position, got to keep the musical chair thing going, just can't trust those outsiders.

Edit: Silly me, President Rove, he must prepare now. Also, Negroponte isn't going to UN, I think Homeland Security, geez, how quickly I forget. Please inform me.

[Warren Stupidity]

25. WTF?

Why is Karen blowing Karl? Oh, I see, Jeff is unavailable.