Karl Rove's America by Paul Krugman

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/opinion/15krugman.html?hp

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John Gibson of Fox News says that Karl Rove should be given a medal. I agree: Mr. Rove should receive a medal from the American Political Science Association for his pioneering discoveries about modern American politics. The medal can, if necessary, be delivered to his prison cell.

What Mr. Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we're not living in the America of the past, where even partisans sometimes changed their views when faced with the facts. Instead, we're living in a country in which there is no longer such a thing as nonpolitical truth. In particular, there are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern.

Ultimately, this isn't just about Mr. Rove. It's also about Mr. Bush, who has always known that his trusted political adviser - a disciple of the late Lee Atwater, whose smear tactics helped President Bush's father win the 1988 election - is a thug, and obviously made no attempt to find out if he was the leaker.

Most of all, it's about what has happened to America. How did our political system get to this point?

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[gizmo1979]

1. Nothing is too low for rove.

How much lower can he go.If this has been a good thing for politics I'd hate to see what he says is bad.

[Skittles]

2. they put the interests of the GOP above the interests of America

and they have the GALL to call themselves PATRIOTS while they're doing it

[barb162]

3. How did our political system get to this point?

the most important political question of our time