Rove in NY Times , The Bran's working oertime

[RedTail Wolf]

Rove Is Using Threat of Loss to Stir G.O.P.


By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: May 8, 2006
WASHINGTON, May 5 — To anyone who doubts the stakes for the White House in this year's midterm Congressional elections, consider that Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the Democrat who would become chairman of the Judiciary Committee if his party recaptured the House, has called for an inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Bush over the war in Iraq.

Or listen to Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who would run the Senate Judiciary Committee if the Democrats took the Senate. Mr. Leahy vowed in a recent interview to subpoena top administration officials, if he got the chance, to answer more questions about their secret eavesdropping program and what he considers faulty prewar intelligence.

The prospect of the administration spending its last two years being grilled by angry Democrats under the heat of partisan spotlights has added urgency to the efforts by Karl Rove and Mr. Bush's political team to hang on to the Republican majorities in Congress.

Newly shorn of the daily policymaking duties he took on after the 2004 campaign and now refocused on his role as Mr. Bush's chief strategist, Mr. Rove is facing an increasingly difficult climate for Republicans, and an increasingly assertive Democratic Party.

The ambitious second-term agenda he helped develop has faltered even with a Republican Congress. His once-grand plans for creating a broadened and permanent Republican majority have given way to a goal of clinging to control of the House and Senate.

The prospect of Democrats capturing either, however, may be one of the best weapons Mr. Rove has as he turns to what he has traditionally done best: motivating his party's conservative base to turn out on Election Day.


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[AndyTiedye]

1. Rove is Not Worried Because They Are Going to Steal the Elections Again

We may pick up some seats in states where they can't change the count,
but we'll "lose" a bunch in states like Ohio where they can do whatever
they want to the election returns and get away with it.

[applegrove]

2. Don't teach apathy. Evidence the faulty exit polls themselves kept

Dems home and not voting that November afternoon. Also too - 65% of American ONLY vote. That is pathetic!! So too the other 48 ways elections were stolen.

Personally - I'm a little more worried that a nuclear bomb will go off in the middle east around October 17th.. and used as a trick to force American to stand behind their coutry or abandon it.

Really - there is evidence that not enough diebold machines lost the vote in city, heavily dem districts of Ohio.

There is not yet any exacting evidence of vote switching by machine.

Worry about phone banks being attacked, people being threatened from hotel lobbies, and the swiftboating of all Democrats for their strengths - before I'd life a finger to worry about diebold.

Diebold seems to be an easy thing to focus on. The way elections are stolen are a whole lot more complicated and awful than that.

[Catrina]

3. Poor Rove, he's operating in a pre-Katrina World ~ everything changed

after Katrina ~ :rofl:

He sounds so desperate and so last century! I know for sure that that the former Bush supporters I know won't be influenced by these tired, old deceptive tactics. They know what the medicare bill is all about ~ and they saw that this so-called 'security' administration have lost the war in Iraq, in Afghanistan and worst of all, even with all the notice they got, they lost an American city!

I'm glad these are the tactics he's going to use, I was afraid he might try something new.

[tulsakatz]

9. health care..........yeah, right!

The only reason why they're listing health care is so that they can support the pharmacy and insurance companies!! It just sounds like something that benefits average Americans but it really benefits corporations over average Americans!

I also read an article recently that said that many Republicans don't even want Rove involved in any election strategies! So how is he going to create a change when his influence is not even wanted? And even if Rove is involved, that would (it seems to me) be an endorsement of Bush policies.........and due to Bush's current plunging poll numbers, Republicans don't want to be linked to Bush's failed policies!!

[RedTail Wolf]

4. BRAIN sp error

[DaveColorado]

5. cross your fingers

he gets indicted

[mrreowwr_kittty]

6. Nah, I like the first spelling

I think the problem with most Republicans is that they need more fiber! :hi:

[watrwefitinfor]

7. Replace "Democratic majority" with "Republican majority"

'...warning that a Democratic majority would put fighting terrorism "on the back burner" and that "our worst fears" could be realized.'

Isn't this EXACTLY what happened with Bush and his Republican majority between January and September, 2001?

Wat

[cliss]

8. Here's the worst part about this article:

"But conservatives could be united and re-energized by the possibility that Democrats could put Mr. Bush and his policies on political trial".

Can you imagine that? United & re-energized? At the thought of all of them going on political trial?

This tells me everything. They are really crooked, corrupt crooks and thre it is in Black and White.

[tulsakatz]

10. good point!

they can't agree on anything else and yet they can become united to save their own skins!