I think Rove’s well protected by his friend, GW. He could be found guilty in a court of law on a number of counts yet that wouldn’t matter since Bush could pardon him like he did Libby and make, once again, a mockery of the American justice system. It’s amazing the press said so little that was scathing, it’s amazing the American people mostly ignored this travesty; slavery must feel better in this country. And we must always remember that there are two legal systems in America.

Robert Lightfoot

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can ignore congressional subpeonas and get away with it? Why aren't they in jail? Do we have a justice system, or is Bushit REALLY totally in charge? Our last election indicated we wanted a change. Now the Dems ignore it. What gives?

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"What more can Karl Rove achieve for Bush and the Republican Party outside the White House than inside it?" How about the last lines of a poem I saw by a commenter on WaPo: " To rove this land from sea to sea/ And finish off democracy."

Rove may have found a quasi-legal way to do this: A right-wing law firm is working with the GOP to steal the 2008 election by destroying California's winner-take-all system of electoral votes. Instead, the electoral votes would be divided per results in each congressional district. Estimates are that this would give the GOP presidential ticket at least 20 electoral votes because of safe GOP districts that it wouldn't get under the rules in any other state. Speculation is that if the Republicans have this advantage in a state that normally goes Democratic, the Democrats cannot win the White House.

Ya think maybe this was Rove's idea?

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Bush’s brain finished up his Oval Office service today the way it started -- lying through his teeth. Said Rove to George W. during his brief farewell speech this morning, “You brought integrity, honesty and decency to the White House."

Here are examples of “integrity, honesty and decency” by the Bush 43 administration:

False claims about Shrub's dishonorable service in the Texas Air National Guard.
So-called Iraqi WMDs.
"Immediate" threats.
Yellow-cake uranium.
Aluminum tubes.
Mobile biological weapons labs.
Ties to Al Qaeda.
A 9/11 connection.
The Valerie Plame/CIA leak case.
Forgiving Scooter Libby’s prison sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Secret overseas prisons.
Torture.
Warrantless wiretaps of United States citizens.
Phony Al Qaeda plots.
False claims that America is safer now from terrorism than before 9/11.
Failing to safeguard our border with Mexico.
Seeking amnesty for illegal immigrants in return for votes and cheap labor.
Concealing the real cost of Gulf War 2.
Destroying the combat effectiveness of National Guard and Ready Reserve troops.
Sending them into Iraq with obsolete body armor and unprotected Humvees.
Understating Iraqi civilian casualties.
Embellishing U.S. successes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Misrepresenting the only wartime tax cut in American history.
Economically betraying senior citizens, the middle class and working poor.
Downplaying global warming.
Bush going on vacation during Hurricane Katrina while fellow Americans drowned in New Orleans.
Vetoing stem cell research for religious reasons.
Censoring the U.S. Surgeon General for the same purpose.
Claiming wounded GIs got the best treatment possible at Walter Reed.
Preventing the coffins of returning GIs from being seen by the public.
Hiding injured Iraq veterans from the press after landing stateside.
Declassifying intelligence information for political purposes.
Firing U.S. attorneys for the same reason.
Obstructing justice by destroying White House emails, allowing AG Gonzales to lie before Congress, claiming Cheney isn’t part of the executive branch and refusing to let former White Houses staff members such as Harriet Miers testify before Congress.

The first item on my list was reported by the Boston Globe on February 28, 2004.

Headlined, ”Bush Bio on Web Inflates Guard Service,” the Globe story told how I scooped thousands of Web-surfing journalists by finding a fabricated presidential biography someone in the White House inadvertently posted on a State Department website.

For AlterNet visitors unfamiliar with George W.’s fabricated Guard history, the State Department document claimed he flew F102s almost SIX years when the actual time was 27 months. The text contained other misrepresentations as well -- all intentional, not typos or mistaken dictation.

For example, the falsified bio asserted that Bush spent four years helping to keep two F102s on strip alert. In truth, he was only qualified for alert duty 22 months and the last 60 days were plagued by pilot problems attributed to poor airmanship, excessive drinking and a rumored fear of flying.

To learn more about the “Bogus Bush Bio Caper,” visit the nonprofit website, King-George.biz.

Hugh E. Scott, Vietnam vet, ex-USAF pilot, lifelong registered Republican, Goldwater conservative, John Kerry supporter in 2004 and the editor of King-George.biz.

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We've not heard the end of Karl Rove.

Since Karl's entire life has been about unethical behavior, he's merely changing his venue. Just because he's quitting the WH and supposedly quitting W, you can be absolutely sure he's simply regrouping.

So, follow the trail of lies. Follow the trail of indictments. Follow the money. Follow the machinations, the political intrigue. There you will find Karl. Snickering. Thumbing his nose at ALL of us.

Real life is far more interesting than a fiction novel. And the tale called Karl's Treatment of the US in the Early 21st Century is not over.

Not by a longshot.

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After reading my previous comment about George W.’s bogus biography, you might be wondering, How did it end up on a State Department website?

According to my case theory, in 2000 then-Governor Bush inflated his weekend warrior duty to make him competitive with his only viable Republican opponent, Arizona Senator John McCain, who spent five and a half years as a POW during the Vietnam War.

After he won the New Hampshire primary, Senator McCain, a highly decorated ex-Navy fighter pilot, was targeted for dirty GOP campaign tricks reportedly orchestrated by Karl Rove -- Lee Atwater prodigy, college dropout and Vietnam War draft dodger.

Nasty whispers spread by Bush/Rove operatives against McCain included:

• He had been brainwashed while a prisoner of war in Hanoi.
• The senator's adopted Bangladesh daughter was his love child.
• He had infected his wife with VD.
• He had turned her into a drug addict.
• He was connected to the Mafia.

The rumors were never taken seriously by most Republican voters. Nevertheless, not once did George W. repudiate the outlandish lies. Nor did he ever apologize to Senator McCain for their use. Instead, Governor Bush countered with a whining "poor me" response that he, too, was being attacked by political enemies -- in his case, the Sierra Club, which had opposed his anti-conservation, pro-business philosophy.

Because the smear campign was hurtful to Sen. McCain's family, he quit the primary race. No longer needed, the bogus biography scheme was abandoned and all copies destroyed including word processing files on computer disks. However, one floppy was apparently overlooked.

As fate would have it after Bush's 2001 inauguration, someone on the new White House staff inadvertently sent the forbidden disk with his phony bio to the State Department website manager as a replacement for President Clinton's history. For three years the smoking gun of Oval Office corruption went undetected, missed by thousands of web-surfing journalists except yours truly.

After the Boston Globe reported my discovery, the Bush administration refused to say who wrote George W.'s false Guard history or how it ended up on the Internet. Instead, White House communications director Dan Bartlett lamely explained that the State Department bio did not "reflect the facts of his [Bush] service" and would be "corrected."

Only voters with room-temperature IQ would expect Karl Rove not to originate direct dirty campaign tricks for the GOP next year.

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Rove is leaving at just the right moment to help further power plays for 2008 and beyond. It is not, in any way, a negative thing for Bush. Does anyone think he won't still call the shots?

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Karl Rove will now sit back and enjoy the fortune he has made and will make from writing his memoirs and lobbying future governments to press onward with the neo-con agenda. He will particularly enjoy laughing at the gullible American public who will still refuse to open their eyes to the manipulation of the masses by these greedy and hubristic neo-cons.Be honest and look around and ask yourself if the country is in better shape now than before the rise of the Bushies. Now, let's get out there and help this country heal the economic and societal wounds inflicted upon it by the extreme right wing that has dominated the country for the last 30 years.

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You are correct that Mr. Rove will be one busy little piggy.

He's got to step up that voter suppression campaign for '08, to disenfranchise as many non-European, non-male, non-Republicans as possible. He's got the gerrymandering of California to accomplish. He's got to keep his fellow KKK members armed, agitated and in the field, patrolling the US-Mexico border in their Humvees with assault rifles and night-vision equipment (I wonder where they get all thet stuff? I also wonder if "dove hunting in West Texas" is a euphemism for red-necked vigilantes terrorizing Hispanics?) There are concentration camps to be built along that border by (surprise!) KBR or some other sub-subsidiary of Halliburton. And there's all of that pesky stolen money to launder through secret offshore accounts - not just his stolen money, but the money stolen by all of the Bush Family, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and all the other conspirators. That amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars to hide from the American and Iraqi people it was stolen from. And a substantial amount needs to be invested in such a way as to fund future (bigger and better!) corporate/fascist takeovers like the Conquest of Iraq, and serve as a source of cash to sustain the planned "Thousand-Year Reich". Because, of course, BushCo doesn't want to give up the White House. So he will also be busy directing disinformation, smoke-screens and other diversions to mask the preparations for Cheney's unilateral attack and invasion of Iran.

Rove can do immense damage to this country, as he has demonstrated time and again. The only way to slow him down is to get him in jail where he belongs, and freeze all of his assets to prevent his portion of the stolen money from disappearing altogether, or from being used for other hate crimes like the Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.

As with Colson, Rove should find himself buried by subpoenas starting now and all his time used up for his own legal problems rather than dreaming up or implementing new crime sprees for BushCo.

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Sure, Rove was and is a slime ball, but there is nothing to be rigged in 2008. Hillary, the war princess will simply be Bush Light. All the Republicans running are for war and more war, except Ron Paul. No point rigging Ron Paul, he does not have a chance. No point rigging Dennis Kuccinich, he does not have a chance either.

Poor Rovey Baby will be out of a job trying to smear someone, since the major contenders of both parties are all for the war to continue at nausum.

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Tom Delay was defeated in Texas in 2006. And he's still a hero in Texas for having embarrassed the whole USA going after Clinton. Rove is still a hero in Texas for making the Shrub king of the USA.

They will not allow Texas to slip from their grasp. Now that all the racists are in the GOP (where they've belonged all along), Texas has a hard core of fascists who can get funded with oil money. And there seems to be a lot more of that around these days.

As this article shows with Nixon, it's a lot easier to hornswaggle the American voter in private business where it's possible to avoid the political transparency laws. (I hear that even Texas has some of those.)

Rove/Bush/Cheney rarely tell the truth. Ignore whatever they say and just watch their every move. The remaining possibility that Rove will lean back and wallow in his accumulated winnings would be a blessing. Watch for the rush of books telling us what a great president the Shrub was. Those who win get to write the history.

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If Karl has a cell phone, he's just a phone call away.

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One of the architects of the Iraq war, Richard Perle, had to leave the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee because too many conflicts of interest started popping up, and Iraq was not going well, so he was one of the 1st scapegoats to be named. No matter, he just stayed on as an "advisor" to the same group.

It's meaningless- all of these guys will get multi-million dollar consulting jobs after Bush is out anyways.

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