story on how Rove recruited Sara Taylor (at age 24)--very interesting.

[rodeodance]

A Bush Aide's Long Road From The White House

By Sridhar Pappu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 12, 2007; Page C01

On a snowy evening in December 1998, Sara M. Taylor, the daughter of a former pipe fitter at a John Deere plant in Iowa, came to a meeting at the Capital Hilton. Washington had grown dark and quiet, and the hotel restaurant was empty, save two people: Omaha financial guru Warren Buffett, and the man she was there to meet -- Karl Rove. Rove had just helped reelect George W. Bush as governor of Texas, and now Rove and Bush had begun the slow process of building a presidential run.

Over the course of an hour Rove quizzed her on the politics of her home state. Her dad, before she was born, had done a stint in the Iowa legislature, and two years earlier she'd taken a year off from her studies at Drake University to work on the presidential campaign of Texas senator Phil Gramm. They spoke about the coalitions needed to win -- social conservatives and the agriculture constituency -- and about the need to meet people personally. Suddenly, Bush himself walked in, plopped down beside her and Rove and drilled her about what he needed to know to win Iowa. In a matter of months, Taylor moved back to Iowa, helping to set up Bush's 2000 win. She was 24.


Sara M. Taylor testifies on the firing of nine U.S. attorneys.
Sara M. Taylor testifies on the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. (Dennis Cook - AP)


That was the beginning of Taylor's relationship with the two men. The end is proving more difficult to resolve.........

[rubberducky]

1. Seems like it`s a cult. Maybe we need to de-program these people.

[Warpy]

2. It IS a cult, and her testimony proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt

Her loyalty oath was to STUPID, not the constitution, and she takes her loyalty to STUPID very seriously.

It's why Congress needs to start jailing these people for contempt when they refuse to testify.

At 34, she is no longer a sweet young thing and will garner far less kneejerk sympathy than she might have even 4 years ago.

None of these loyalists believes in the rule of law. They only believe in the absolute divine right power of Stupid. It's why they need a demonstration that yes, we are still a nation of laws, not a kingdom.

[rubberducky]

3. Oh!! How I agree with you.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Her fealty to the Bush boy was painfully evident in her testimony and its very tone.

She was an arrogant little shit who was thumbing her nose at the 'democRAT' party that had the temerity to have her young ass up on the witness stand.

If I was there, I would have been hard pressed to avoid spanking her. Little shit that she is.

[rodeodance]

5. recall how she said she took an oath to Bush-------!!

[AndreaCG]

8. Can Congress cite her for contempt for that statement?

Didn't she actually take an oath to uphold the Constitution? Don't all lawyers have to swear that when they are admitted to the bar?

[Colobo]

6. A cult? Please... it's just politics. You guys talk like Rove and Bush have superpowers...

[MadMaddie]

7. No more than a Jim Brown or a David Koresh....

They have people believing in a way of American life that is supposedly based on what the founding Fathers started.

The Cult part of it also is greed and destroying government. "Drown it in a bathtub"!

People who we think would have common sense have abdicated their intellgence to a man and a cause that is illogical and dangerous.

I would say #5 identifies these people.

Main Entry: cult

Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate -- more at WHEEL
1 : formal religious veneration : WORSHIP
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
5 a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b : the object of such devotion c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion