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Code Rove

By Evan Derkacz, AlterNet. Posted July 13, 2005.


In this complex scandal there's really only one thing to keep in mind: Karl Rove endangered America.
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Okay, keep your eye on the ball: Karl Rove endangered America.

But, you've been keeping up, reading, watching TV, and you've undoubtedly heard (or will hear) that Karl Rove didn't say the words "Valerie Plame," or he didn't mean to blow her cover -- or was her cover too threadbare to even matter? -- or Joe Wilson's claims weren't true, or else he was trying to save a reporter from printing a false story, or ...

… Hey, look over there: MoveOn.org is unpatriotic!

Confused? Well, that's the plan, anyway. By shattering the story into a dozen shards, defenders of Rove's dangerous abuse of power hope to shift the debate away from the scandalous fact that Karl Rove endangered America by leaking the classified information that Joseph Wilson's wife "works at the agency" (CIA). In fact, the GOP's latest talking points on the Rove scandal focus almost exclusively on smearing Joseph Wilson -- which is ironic, to say the least, given the fact that this whole scandal began with a smear of Joseph Wilson.

Ignore it. Joseph Wilson didn't order Karl Rove to leak the identity of his wife.

Next, lawyers and "experts" will parse the legalese: Here are the A, B and C required to convict Karl Rove of violating the law, they'll say. Again, ignore it. It's not about the letter of the law, it's about two simple facts:

  1. Karl Rove endangered America
  2. Karl Rove retains his security clearance and the trust of President Bush, thus enabling him to do it again.

All the remaining questions being filtered to the media for scripted debate on Hannity and Colmes or Hardball are, to varying degrees, worth debating. Sometime. And in a balanced venue. But right now, the most important strands in this scandal are the two simple, irrefutable facts above.

A 'Treasonous' Action

This is not a partisan issue. Back in October of 2003, shortly after Robert Novak -- over CIA protests -- published Plame's identity, a group of former CIA agents testified before a Senate Democratic Policy Committee on the outing of their colleague. The agents, Larry Johnson, Michael Grimaldi and Brent Cavan, all of whom are Republicans, pulled no punches in their shared statement:

We also want to send a clear message to the political “operatives” responsible for “outing” Mrs. Wilson. Such action was treacherous, if not treasonous. ... Such action has allowed the less attractive aspects of politics to supersede the Government's responsibility to protect the citizens of this nation and the individuals who serve in difficult, dangerous covert capacities. This has set a sickening precedent. The “senior Administration officials” who did this have warned all U.S. intelligence officers and the intelligence community that any one individual may be compromised if providing information or factual analysis the White House does not like.

We now know that the "senior Administration official" referred to in the above testimony is Karl Rove. We know it because his email to Time magazine's Matt Cooper says so (Correction: Rove and Cooper spoke on the phone. Cooper subsequently emailed his editor revealing the contents of their conversation -- ed.) and because Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, all but cemented this fact when he "updated" his public statements from: "[Rove] did not reveal any confidential information," to the more litigation-proof: "[Karl Rove] never knowingly disclosed classified information."

There's a certain irony at work when the president's most trusted adviser, Karl Rove, outs Valerie Plame, a WMD specialist, while waging a war on Iraq which was, publicly at least, about protecting America from WMD.

Outing her not only jeopardized whatever she was working on at the time but, as the Washington Post reported, "Every foreign intelligence service would run Plame's name through its databases within hours of its publication to determine if she had visited their country and to reconstruct her activities."

The article also warned that, "Intelligence officials have said that once Plame's job as an undercover operative was revealed, other agency secrets could be unraveled and her sources might be compromised or endangered."

But let's return to the testimony of the former CIA agents for the specifics:

If left unpunished, this cowardly act [blowing Plame's cover] will not only hinder our efforts to recruit qualified individuals into the clandestine service, but it will have a far-reaching, deleterious effect on our ability to recruit foreign intelligence assets overseas. Who in their right mind would ever agree to become a spy for the United States when we cannot even protect our own undercover officers?

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Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.

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Palmegate faux pas
Posted by: timtufuga on Jul 13, 2005 3:30 AM   
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What seems to be the problem? Karl Rove discloses Mrs. Valerie Palme Wilson's dubious research and findings in Niger, in support of Iraqi's WMD, she, along with all involved in finding WMDs must be held acountable, since the Uranium deals was shown to be CRAP. So what is the big deal about a "burnt" CIA operative anyway? You Americans are so filibusteringly boring. Shoot the cow, well, fire her anyway, for being an idiot??!!! As for Rove he deserves to be handcuffed and thrown out of the White House for being a bragging treasonous egghead... Media filibusterers I know what it means for sure....

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» RE: Palmegate faux pas Posted by: bschuhle
He may have endangered Britain as well!
Posted by: GaelicStarover on Jul 13, 2005 3:39 AM   
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Punishment or therapy
Posted by: nardo on Jul 13, 2005 4:59 AM   
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Now let's see who recommends therapy for this situation.

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Fire Karl Roach Rove
Posted by: Sandra on Jul 13, 2005 5:15 AM   
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Fire Karl Roach Rove. It's time to send the exterminators to the White House. Karl is not the only roach in residence.

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A matter of tense
Posted by: Riverside on Jul 13, 2005 5:16 AM   
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Good stuff in America's Rove, but we should drop the past and future tense. Karl Rove is endangering America then, now, and until sent to the local CIA attitude adjustment center. Once there he will receive specialized therapy certain to liberate his confused brain, and teach him the skills needed to be a successful attendant in a Siberian sauna.

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Karl Rove
Posted by: Tom Degan on Jul 13, 2005 5:26 AM   
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Why don't the democrats have their own evil genius? It would sure make their lives easier.
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

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» RE: Karl Rove Posted by: lindalee
» RE: Karl Rove Posted by: Wacre
Coming In From the Fog
Posted by: Riverside on Jul 13, 2005 5:27 AM   
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Sir, First of all her name was Valery Plame. She is now a Mrs. Wilson. Secondly, perhaps you have had the experience of placing complete trust in someone only to have that person break that trust and reveal all at the most inconvenient and potentially dangerour time in your life. If, on the other hand, you have not experienced this, then it might be a good idea for you stay out of the kitchen.

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» RE: Coming In From the Fog Posted by: jverner
» RE: Coming In From the Fog Posted by: Riverside
Rove and Treason
Posted by: bookwoman on Jul 13, 2005 6:05 AM   
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I think its pretty obvious that Rove is more loyal to the Bush family than he is to his country. Maybe they should just adopt him. He even tried to smear a fellow Republican to push Bush, 41's candidacy. Interesting isn't it that the elder Bush had him fired for that action. I guess who ever said the blood is running thinner with each Bush generation was right.

At any rate, it should be interesting to see how the Administration gets out of this one without letting Rove go, and you know they will get out of it. They will just tell everyone we are imagining it just as they do with the mess in Iraq, and the Economy, and American job loss, and, and, and.

By the way, in the parsing words department, did we ever decide was "is" meant. Remember the Republican fuss over Bill Clinton's parsing of that word.

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» RE: ove and Treason Posted by: papergirl
Bush's promise
Posted by: Erin on Jul 13, 2005 6:26 AM   
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Let us not forget Bush's promise to fire the person responsible for the leak. Well, Mr. Bush, we have the name of the person who endangered an agent and America, so what is taking you so long in following through? Also, wouldn't it be appropriate to have Rove arrested under the Patriot Act? He should be treated like any other American and put in a cell and left there indefinately, with no charges filed. Afterall, this would be the fate of anyone else who committed such an outrageous act. Or is the Patriot Act only for everyone except the king and his court?

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» RE: Bush's promise Posted by: Guy
Politics = Obfuscation
Posted by: Lincoln fan on Jul 13, 2005 6:32 AM   
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The book"1984" summed up politics very well with "doublespeak". This is a technique that entails using words to disguise their true meaning. For decades, under both parties, we fought communism as a political system rather than an economic system. We were supposedly fighting the tyrrany of communism and defending the freedom of democracy (capitalism). Their have been any number of instances where we have supported repressive capitalistic systems and at least one case where we have overthrown an elected communist regime. Allende in Chile. Double-speak is not unique to neo-conservatives it is part of politics.

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Scholar
Posted by: artonarts@centurytel.net on Jul 13, 2005 6:37 AM   
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Also, wouldn't it be appropriate to have Rove arrested under the Patriot Act? He should be treated like any other American and put in a cell and left there indefinately, with no charges filed.

Like Father like Son! Birds of a feather flock together! Like attracts like, unlike repels! Is it so hard to see Bush Rove Cheney and all of the administration are criminals attracted to their kind? Bush needs Rove's sleaze and likewise, get rid of them all. Take no prisoners, they're not with us, so being against us, we should exercise this democracy and imprison the fools NOW!

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Mistake on Rove
Posted by: Needles on Jul 13, 2005 7:04 AM   
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This is a good piece, but Evan Derkacz repeats an error that I'm starting to see pop up in several places. He says,
" We now know that the 'senior Administration official' referred to in the above testimony is Karl Rove. We know it because his email to Time magazine's Matt Cooper says so ..."
As far as I know, there's no e-mail from Karl Rove to Matt Cooper involved here. Time handed over Cooper's notes of his telephone conversation with Rove to Fitzgerald. Also included was an e-mail from Cooper to his editor. No Rove e-mail.

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» RE: Mistake on Rove Posted by: LaVieja
What's So Complex About This Story?
Posted by: jverner on Jul 13, 2005 7:46 AM   
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I think you're overestimating the Repubs. This story is really simple: Wilson pisses off W; Rove gets back at Wilson by telling journalists that Wilson's wife is a CIA agent. That's illegal. Even if it's not, it's reprehensible.

Of course, none of this will stop W & Rove & McClellan etc. from trying to lie their way out of it, which ought to be entertaining.

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Mr.
Posted by: mikeinwaco on Jul 13, 2005 7:51 AM   
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Those who state that we cannot summarily withdraw from Iraq because it would send a message of defeatism to terrorists should consider that if Karl Rove is excused for his sins regarding the Valerie Plame affair, any president can make any promise, defend any wrongdoing of his subordinates, or lie, generally, with impunity.

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» RE: Mr. Posted by: LaVieja
Presdient/CEO
Posted by: rchdb on Jul 13, 2005 9:03 AM   
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What did Bush know and when did he know it? Are we to assume the President Bush didn't ask Karl Rove if he was the leaker back in 2003. If he was vigorously persuing an investigation why didn't he ask? There clearly was specualtion centered on Rove at the time.

So again , as with the WMDs and the"bad" intel, Bush was either blindly oerating as if everything is fine, or he asked and Rove denied it, therefore lying to his president, or he asked and ROve said it was me and Bush stonewalled it and lied to us. Which is it Mr President.

This is continuing to be the most failed presidency in modern history after Nixon. MOre to come.

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» RE: Presdient/CEO Posted by: LaVieja
ONE MAN SHOW?
Posted by: mendomama on Jul 13, 2005 10:10 AM   
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I don't like that Rove is labeled as the culpret to all of this. He may have been the conduit by which the information was passed, but I don't believe it started and stopped with him. The outing of Plame was one aspect of a much larger scale deception. The discrediting of her husband was crucial because without the confirmation of WMDs, the Bush regime had no case for going to war. In addition to hushing Wilson, the Administration was attempting to send a message to others that work in that field that either you find information that supports the lie, or face similar consequences. To actually believe that Rove somehow acted alone in this, is about as preposturous as the claim that Timothy McVeigh's bombing in Oklahoma City was a one man show. Do you really think the whole of BushCo didn't know what was going on with all of this? Do you think the Pres didn't know that Rove was fired by Daddy Bush for attempting to leak info on another candidate, OR that he didn't know that Novak was the reporter in question in that incident? Gimme a break. The corruption is spread far and wide. I say it's time to clean house. The White House is as dirty as a urinal in some hole in the wall bar in the sleazy part of town.

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Deja Vu
Posted by: jeffrey7 on Jul 13, 2005 10:33 AM   
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All the blab coming out of the white house(small letters for lack of Leadership) is very reminicent of Iran/Contra.Remember W's Dad and friends,all guilty of Treason,one loser became prez,the other V.P. later on.But the facts are the same.These people care only for their OWN agenda,legal or not,and will stop at nothing to get it.If you want to get to the truth about9/11 you're going to dig to nowhere.The white house,CIA,and the NSC need to have their assets frozen,once they don't eat for a few days,they'll turn in their Grandmmas to get their money back

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» RE: Deja Vu Posted by: LaVieja
"Fired" ?
Posted by: Crazy H on Jul 13, 2005 10:51 AM   
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Rove committed an act of treason, aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war. ("War" according to Rove, anyway - irconic, no?)

The only time he should be 'fired' is if that word is preceeded by "ready... aim..."

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Rove's history of sleeze
Posted by: kdnls on Jul 13, 2005 11:15 AM   
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Karl Rove's sleeze with this Bush has gone way back to at least W's 1st campaign for gov of Texas. The favorite, encumbant Ann Richards, was defeated after fliers claiming that she had gays in her cabinet were strategically placed on windsheilds in several locations (churches) in the Dallas Ft. Worth area: John McCain was eliminated from the GOP race for nomination in 2000 after he lost in the SC primary after a letter was circulated that he had a black illigitimate child. Karl Rove was thought to be responsible for these smear tactics. No one will convince me that this not the reason he is so valued by Bush Jr. He can only win elections by deceit.

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The roach is exposed in the light
Posted by: hotlipsin61 on Jul 13, 2005 11:17 AM   
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When you turn on a light in a dark room and you see a roach scurrying for cover, what do you do? For the Bush Admiistration, in light of outing a CIA agent, they chose to let it make a run for it.
"it's our house pet," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
That roach happened to be Karl Rove who managed to avoid being stomped on by someone's shoe, who's free to cause more damage to the nation. He dare not emerge from his hiding place.

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Olympian Detachment
Posted by: conn on Jul 13, 2005 12:57 PM   
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For a fair and balanced view of the Rove brouhaha, have a look at the hyper-sober new website KarlRoveIsToast.com.

http://www.karlroveistoast.com

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Sleight of Hand
Posted by: mrsmagoo on Jul 13, 2005 1:03 PM   
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Here we go again. We get sleight of hand and word games everytime something controversial comes out of the White House! The White House does not believe in truth nor do they take responsibility for anything. It is just SO convenient that when the negative spotlight is on them, the sleight of hand tricks are used to pull the focus away from themselves. What a reprehensible pack of liars, thugs, cheats and lunatics!

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Larry Johnson "Captain America" come Austin Powers!
Posted by: timtufuga on Jul 13, 2005 6:20 PM   
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It has been revealed to me that according to some of your blogs on ROVE and Palmegate you neglected to mention the great American CIA faux pas Larry Johnson who in no uncertain terms would brag to the rest of the world that Valerie Palme Wilson was in fact a CIA operative in Niger and not merely a desk jockey as Repubican sources have dismissed her status as being. In this concession of public and global exposure you have indicated to the government of both Niger and Iraq that the full disclosure of the WMD conspiracy for uranium consignments shipment to Iraq was a mere hallucionationary fabrication made up by the CIA and its operatives in Africa, namely in the USA Embassy in Niger.

Insofar as, an "intelligence leak" is concerned you have a compromising idiot by the name of Larry Johnson from the farm in Langley, Virginia. CIA operative meets "Austin Powers".

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must see
Posted by: red_lotus432 on Jul 13, 2005 7:43 PM   
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watch documentary Bush's brain.

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trutx
Posted by: trutex on Jul 13, 2005 8:55 PM   
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this administration has had a problem with the truth ever since DUBYA ran as a' uniter, hot a divider.' Wilson exposed the lie 'bout yellowcake uranium, and now he is being assassinated by people like that SCARE-crow, Ann Coulter on primetime Fox News! Even Laura Bush is responding with the standard Bush line any native Texan uses to let others know "a friend"-or as any Soprano devotee knows "a goodfella"- KARL ROVE IS A FRIEND OF MINE, and that vouches for the man's character. For a guy that talks about morals and character, Her husband sure does lie and protect those types.

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» RE: trutx Posted by: Edward George
clinker
Posted by: cottontail on Jul 13, 2005 10:19 PM   
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Karl Rove, the prize graduate from the Lee Atwater school of slime politics, upon his conviction, should be placed in Guantanamo. The dipstick Scott McClellan should resign and go out and find a real job.

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Redition for Rove
Posted by: virgil6686 on Jul 13, 2005 11:24 PM   
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Carl Rove should be sent to the Pakistanie Secret Service to see if they can get Rove into telling the truth. Rendition for Rove!

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A PREDICTION
Posted by: ssegallmd on Jul 14, 2005 6:50 AM   
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Why did Rove give Matt Cooper permission to reveal his name as the source of what would ordinarily be considered a treasonous act?

Because, I contend, that he is so powerful and so secure in his status as being above the law that he has the hubris to effectively say, "Yeah, that's right, I did it. And what are you going to do about it?"

He defies us to retaliate, and you know what? I believe that he is right. I believe that he could murder Scott McClellan (for example) or Joe Wilson in cold blood on television and not be convicted of murder or even subjected to a real trial.

That's power, he has it, he knows it and he's flaunting it. Bush is more likely to be carried off in handcuffs that this Master of the Universe.

Not AirAmerica, not MoveOn.org, not the Democratic Party, not the American people - nobody can touch them however flagrant they are. See if I'm wrong, and then go weep for your democracy which we can now rename Terri Schiavo the nation.

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» RE: A PREDICTION Posted by: Edward George
» RE: A PREDICTION Posted by: Monde
The Republican Congress is the BIG criminal
Posted by: metamind on Jul 14, 2005 5:03 PM   
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Imagine if this had happened under Clinton. Do you think
there might have been a few committees in Congress that
would have held hearings? Nary a peep from this Congress.
Let's remember this as "The Obstructionist Congress" .... as in
"Obstruction of Justice."

It's the Republicans, people. Throw the bums out!

Steve

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All This Will Have Much More Context
Posted by: Monde on Jul 16, 2005 4:45 AM   
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Read Bush's Brain, written by two very experienced, fact-oriented journalists, one a newspaper reporter, the other covering campaign news on TV for 20-plus years. I read it. It shows, without insults, jokes, and editorialising, exactly what Rove has been up to since his Young Reoublican college years in hippie-campus 1968. Personal issues that this man has had, about women, counterculture, race, the poor, and anything he perceives as "weak" cause a huge energy burst in him that won't stop until the "weak" one, or the competitor, is not only beaten but ruined permanently. After a rocky family life and a horrible experience in which his first wife admitted loudly in the lawyer's office "I never really loved you" and stomped out of the room never to be seen again, one can see where some of his ugliest actions get their motives.

Even if this scandal is deflected, his best days are through, and the man knows it. His modus operandi was always to be the hidden-behind-the-curtain man, pulling strings, This ease in doing so he's had all his life will never return...and it already shows. He's Shrub's 'handler' and no-one seems to be handling Shrub these days at all. The beginning of the end has finally occurred.

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The public's attention span is elsewhere
Posted by: FlapJackSeven on Jul 17, 2005 5:29 AM   
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Most Americans couldn't care less about what happens in DC unless it affects their taxes.

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