Why did Rove go?
What Really Brought Rove Down?
When the Bush administration angered one of its most hard-right officials, he launched an investigation into Karl Rove’s politicization of the federal government – which may be what led to Rove’s resignation.
| Adele M. Stan | August 14, 2007 | web only |
Tick off your garden variety wing-nut, and the cork is swiftly pulled from that vial of vitriol soon to be dumped on your cornflakes. But tick off a hard-line religious rightie, and you just might come to intimate terms with his terrible swift sword. Just ask former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, once the genius architect of invincible success – before he became the architect of abysmal disaster.
Glad to see the verdicts coming in looking at his accomplishments in a more realistic light, namely, that he failed on most of his attempts- social security, immigration, that whole “Permanent Republican Majority” bullshit. But he succeeded, unfortunately, with far too much. When the history of the strange and alien time that we’ve lived in for the last 6 years is written, Karl Rove will have his donut-smeared fingerprints on most of the policies and practices that have tarnished, inflamed, and lessened this nation. He is a pox, a boil- and if he doesn’t appear before Congress- or a civil court- for his crimes, then all we’re doing is giving permission, in advance, to the next snake oil selling, democracy shredding, partisan operative to attempt to piss sand into the machinery.
That would be the real tragedy of Karl Rove. That if we as a nation don’t attempt to learn from our mistakes, to keep from repeating them. A stake needs to be driven into the heart of Karl Rove, his bosses, and his ideas of party over people- and keep hammering until everyone knows the beast is dead.
