A Tough Road Ahead for the President's Closest Adviser (KKKARL)

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — Karl Rove, the top White House political strategist, is coming off the worst election defeat of his career to face a daunting task: saving the president’s agenda with a Congress not only controlled by Democrats, but also filled with Republican members resentful of the way he and the White House conducted the losing campaign.

White House officials say President Bush has every intention of keeping Mr. Rove on through the rest of his term. And Mr. Rove’s associates say he intends to stay, with the goal of at least salvaging Mr. Bush’s legacy and, in the process, his own.

But serious questions remain about how much influence Mr. Rove can wield and how high a profile he can assume in Washington after being so closely identified with this year’s Republican losses, not to mention six years of often brutal attacks on the same Democrats in line to control Congress for the remainder of Mr. Bush’s presidency.

Things have not gotten off to a great start since the election. Democrats are taking Mr. Rove’s continued influence at the White House — as well as some of its recent moves, like nominating conservative judges for the federal bench — as a sign that Mr. Bush’s conciliatory pledges of bipartisanship will prove to be fleeting.

“Karl’s role has not been to serve as a bridge over troubled waters; he has tried to stir the waters as often as possible,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who will be the second-most powerful person in the Senate next year. “Maybe he got religion on Nov. 7, but we’ll see.”

Republicans on Capitol Hill said anger ran deep over Mr. Bush’s decision to announce the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld one day after the election instead of weeks before, when some say it could have kept the Senate in their party’s hands and limited Democratic gains in the House. Mr. Rove was among those at the White House who had argued that to announce Mr. Rumsfeld’s resignation before Election Day would have been tantamount to affirming criticism that the war in Iraq was failing, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/washington/19rove.html?em&ex=1164085200&en=9ff1b36dd197e15b&ei=5087%0A

[TheDebbieDee]

1. At first reading, I thought your header read:

"A Tough Road Ahead for the President's CLOSET Adviser (KKKARL)"

[NVMojo]

3. ROFLMAO!!!

[applegrove]

7. LOL

[whistle]

2. There should not be any "road ahead" for KKKarl Rove, impeach him

...now and then prosecute him for every criminal act he has committed.

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Karl Rove Announces Plans to Steal Election
Submitted by dswanson on Thu, 2006-10-26 19:54. Elections
By David Swanson

White House political head honcho Karl Rove was interviewed by National Public Radio yesterday. He effectively announced plans to steal the coming elections. The polls point decisively to a Democratic majority in the House, and possibly in the Senate. Yet Rove told NPR he was certain of Republican majorities in both houses, and gave laughable reasons for his claim. Rove had no actual evidence to point to.

Now, this could be seen as the obsessive lying of a political hack, were it not for the fact that Rove's party has stolen elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004, has recently increased dramatically the opportunities for election fraud (with new machines, new ID requirements, new purging techniques), and has already begun dirty tricks in a number of states (including machine foul ups already in Maryland, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, and the U.S. military). Rove's strategy is clearly to steal the elections and to put forth a paper-thin excuse to justify it, one he hopes the corporate media will (again) accept. How do we know that's Rove's strategy? Because he announced it yesterday on NPR. Here's the transcript:
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http://www.davidswanson.org/?q=node/641

[NVMojo]

4. KKKarl misread things, he didn't realize some Americans were so mad

that they wouldn't fall for the Swiftboat lies again or the Kerry stumbles ...

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“I would say that brilliant as he is, he was not right,” said Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who counts himself among those who believe that Mr. Rumsfeld’s resignation could have helped the party maintain control of the Senate. “I think Rove misread the anger of the American people about Iraq.”

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[rocktivity]

5. TORO TURD!

...Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who counts himself among those who believe that Mr. Rumsfeld’s resignation could have helped the party maintain control of the Senate...said...“I think Rove misread the anger of the American people about Iraq...”

That's a copout--what ALL the Republicans misread was the anger of the American people at BUSH!!! Anger about the hypocrisy, the secrecy, the media shilling, the scandals, the incompetence...Bush's approval ratings in in the THIRTIES, yet we're supposed to believe that this election was a referendum on Iraq???

:mad:
rocknation

[MichiganVote]

6. He is a has-been. A big, fat, geriatric, republican dinosaur.

[spooky3]

8. I must be the only one who believes dumping Rummy made no difference

If they dumped him prior to the election I think the results would have been the same. Everyone knows who the "decider" is. And there were many more reasons besides Iraq that independents voted for Democrats this year.

It would be a big mistake to interpret this election (as people like Arianna Huffington do) as simply a reflection of anti-Iraq feeling. People want Congress to start solving other problems too, and they want the corrupt and incompetent White House to get out of the way.