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Aug. 13th, 2007 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockKarl Rove, President Bush's longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas....
No More Mister Nice Blog points out:
Well, why not? What else is left for him to do? The consuming quest of the second term -- keeping the war going until Junior leaves office -- has been accomplished despite the Democratic takeover of Congress. All the pieces are in place: The quagmire worsens and therefore (see above) extrication of U.S. troops seems ever more difficult and dangerous; the testimony of Saint Petraeus will prevent a veto-proof majority from turning against the president; fear of al-Qaeda is on the rise again (nicely timed rumor of a dirty bomb attack, eh, Karl?) ... The whole thing's on autopilot. The blueprints are in final form; the workers can finish the job themselves -- they don't need the Architect.
Wish I could disagree with him. I'm just wondering whose campaign the Brain is going to work for next...
No More Mister Nice Blog points out:
Well, why not? What else is left for him to do? The consuming quest of the second term -- keeping the war going until Junior leaves office -- has been accomplished despite the Democratic takeover of Congress. All the pieces are in place: The quagmire worsens and therefore (see above) extrication of U.S. troops seems ever more difficult and dangerous; the testimony of Saint Petraeus will prevent a veto-proof majority from turning against the president; fear of al-Qaeda is on the rise again (nicely timed rumor of a dirty bomb attack, eh, Karl?) ... The whole thing's on autopilot. The blueprints are in final form; the workers can finish the job themselves -- they don't need the Architect.
Wish I could disagree with him. I'm just wondering whose campaign the Brain is going to work for next...
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Date: 2007-08-13 05:51 pm (UTC)[Rove] was and remains an autodidact, and a large part of his self-image depends on showing that his command of history and politics is an order of magnitude greater than other people’s. Rove has a need to outdo everybody else that seems to inform his sometimes contrarian views of history. It’s not enough for him to have read everything; he needs to have read everything and arrived at insights that others missed.
He certainly believes himself to be a genius and has gotten the rest of the media and Washington talking heads to buy in as well...but yeah, the numbers don't add up.