WaPo Analysis: Rove Flap Gives Dems Ammo

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041400705.html

Analysis: Rove Flap Gives Dems Ammo

By TOM RAUM
The Associated Press
Saturday, April 14, 2007; 4:49 PM

WASHINGTON -- The fight over documents has gone to red alert. The White House acknowledges it cannot find four years' worth of e-mails from chief political strategist Karl Rove. The admission has thrust the Democrats' nemesis back into the center of attention and poses a fresh political challenge for President Bush.

The administration has acknowledged that some e-mails missing from Rove's Republican party account may relate to the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors last year. The Democratic-run Congress is investigating whether the firings resulted from political pressure by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the White House.

For Democrats, the missing Rove e-mails is one more chance to pound away at their favorite target, the architect of Bush's 2000 and 2004 presidential victories and all-around White House political fixer.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has compared the missing e-mails to the 18-minute gap on President Nixon's Watergate tapes. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says the White House message to Congress is: "We are stonewalling."

The White House chalks it up to just another outbreak of Democratic Rove rage. "My experience has been that any time Karl Rove's name is mentioned, it adds to the ammunition, regardless of merit," White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.

Only Dick Cheney raises the same kind of anger _ and there is not much they can do about the vice president, short of impeachment.

The Rove connection is sure to be raised when Gonzales testifies Tuesday before Leahy's committee. His appearance, Democratic and Republican lawmakers say, may determine whether the longtime Bush friend can hold onto his job.

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[fasttense]

1. Poor old Republics

being attacked by those mean Democratic Congress leaders. Just because Americans pay Rove's paycheck, doesn't mean he has to follow laws and other annoying regulations. Poor old Republics, can never catch a break.:sarcasm:

[Gman]

2. I don't ever remember a headline during Watergate that mentioned Democrats

against Nixxon. The MSM acts like it's common partisan fighting rather than the high crimes, misdemeanors and felonies that have been committed. The parties of those trying to bring the guilty to justice is completely irrelevant and takes away from the seriousness of the threat to the laws and the constitution of this country. The headline should rightfully and by an honest and responsible media have used the word "Congress" rather than "Dems" as the checks and balances that were designed into our government continued to work.

[gratuitous]

3. Yeah, what's "partisan" about obeying the law?

Or does the law now have a liberal bias, too? Damn, first facts, then reality, and now law! Will the liberal perniciousness never end?!

The question remains: Is the Post this stupid, or do they think we're this stupid?

[Gman]

4. No small wonder they wanted "loyal bushies" to be USDA's

That way they pretty much have get out of jail free cards from any prosecution from the DOJ as a job perk.

[BlueManDude]

5. It's just a flap.