NYT: Rove Is More His Old Self at the White House

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Rove Is More His Old Self at the White House
By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: November 11, 2005


WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 - The architect, it seems, is back.

Hunkered down for almost all of October while a grand jury considered his fate, Karl Rove has rebounded as a visible presence at the White House over the last two weeks, according to administration officials and Republican colleagues. He is running meetings and pursuing candidates for the 2006 elections - and, associates say, devising long-term political plans that suggest he does not believe he will face future legal trouble despite the C.I.A. leak investigation in which he has been involved.

On Thursday night, Mr. Rove made his first major public appearance in several weeks, speaking at the Federalist Society in Washington. The remarks on judicial restraint were hardly newsworthy in themselves, but his presence was. Just three weeks ago, at the height of the administration's worst troubles over the Supreme Court and as anxiety in the leak inquiry consumed the White House, Mr. Rove canceled a speech for the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia.

Since then, Mr. Rove has remained in legal limbo, neither cleared nor charged. But the frenzy surrounding his role has subsided since the Oct. 28 indictment of I. Lewis Libby Jr., and associates say there has been an elevation of Mr. Rove's persona inside and outside the West Wing - a shift that has the added benefit of assuring conservatives that the White House is trying to regain its footing after a spate of recent disasters....

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White House officials have insisted that the legal complications did not subtract from Mr. Rove's ability to do his job in recent weeks - disputing, among other things, that the botched response to Hurricane Katrina and the Harriet E. Miers nomination resulted from the political director's distractions. Nonetheless, Republican officials are now relieved to be able to demonstrate how engaged Mr. Rove is. Several have gone so far as to suggest that Mr. Rove's recovery is a harbinger of brighter days for the administration....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/politics/11rove.html

[David Dunham]

1. I hope Rove gets indicted soon!!!!

[Tiggeroshii]

2. That's good.

THat way he'll beeven more traumatized once indictments are served to him at the end of this month(I hope)

[Skittles]

3. he had to return, bush inc fumbling without him

he had no choice

[Demeter]

4. What A Fool Rove Is!

The man cannot eat breakfast without breaking the law, and now he's out there doing more indictable offenses with a spring in his step and glee in his eye. He ought to just surrender to Fitzgerald and save us all a lot of time and grief, because he is going down by his own hand. It makes for great theatre, though. There will be more books about this era than about the Civil War, for this is the next big turning point for our nation; whether we survive as a republic depends on the steadfast and courageous acts of every individual among us who still believes in the spirit that sent our ancestors out in leaky boats to this new land.