Gayle in MD
08-14-2007, 04:07 PM
Already, Beltwey insiders are beginning to notice, since Rove left town, (given a hero's send off, hellicpoter and all,) that the air in Washington is losing some of it's stench like odor, and the sky is interestingly a true blue, not seen for many years, over six, to be exact.
I'm sure Rove will also be given the Medal Of Freedom, Bush's standard award for lies and incompetence, but not till January, just before leaving Washington DC, no doubt, for a reunion with all his partners in sin back at the ranch.
A good article follows, offering an excellent example of how people like Karl Rove, (And I'd add Ronald Reagan) inherit such unrecognizable accolades after screwing up just about everything.
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The resignation of Karl Rove, architect of President George W. Bush's election triumphs and a crucial behind-the-scenes policy guru, is the latest sign of the White House's diminished agenda and shattered dreams of a Republican super-majority, analysts said.
Rove, the last and most prominent of Bush's inner circle of Texas advisers to quit the administration, leaves a lame-duck president suffering from low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iraq and public rejection in the 2006 elections.
With Democrats in control of Congress and brimming with optimism about the 2008 White House race, Rove's talk of a lasting and historic shift to Republican dominance seems long ago.
"This closes the chapter where George Bush and Karl Rove thought they were building a new Republican majority that would last a generation. That is clearly off the table," said Cal Jillson, a political analyst at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Bush's top domestic priorities -- overhauls of Social Security and immigration -- are dead in Congress, leaving the administration scrambling in its final 17 months to save his first-term tax cuts, blunt Democratic spending priorities and salvage the war in Iraq.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2007-08-13T194612Z_01_LAU370657_RTRUKOC_0_US-POLITICS-ROVE-DEPARTURE.xml
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I'm sure Rove will also be given the Medal Of Freedom, Bush's standard award for lies and incompetence, but not till January, just before leaving Washington DC, no doubt, for a reunion with all his partners in sin back at the ranch.
A good article follows, offering an excellent example of how people like Karl Rove, (And I'd add Ronald Reagan) inherit such unrecognizable accolades after screwing up just about everything.
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The resignation of Karl Rove, architect of President George W. Bush's election triumphs and a crucial behind-the-scenes policy guru, is the latest sign of the White House's diminished agenda and shattered dreams of a Republican super-majority, analysts said.
Rove, the last and most prominent of Bush's inner circle of Texas advisers to quit the administration, leaves a lame-duck president suffering from low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iraq and public rejection in the 2006 elections.
With Democrats in control of Congress and brimming with optimism about the 2008 White House race, Rove's talk of a lasting and historic shift to Republican dominance seems long ago.
"This closes the chapter where George Bush and Karl Rove thought they were building a new Republican majority that would last a generation. That is clearly off the table," said Cal Jillson, a political analyst at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Bush's top domestic priorities -- overhauls of Social Security and immigration -- are dead in Congress, leaving the administration scrambling in its final 17 months to save his first-term tax cuts, blunt Democratic spending priorities and salvage the war in Iraq.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2007-08-13T194612Z_01_LAU370657_RTRUKOC_0_US-POLITICS-ROVE-DEPARTURE.xml
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