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Thers at Whiskey Fire on Rove as Newsweek political pundit:

If Rove had gotten that permanent Republican majority that we heard so much about in the earlier years of this wretched new American century, would he be writing Newsweek columns and online WSJ editorials? I kind of doubt it, myself. He'd be kickin' it Ming the Merciless style, lolling about on a throne of infant skulls while being constantly masturbated by high-tech NASA stroke-bots, granting audiences to party potentates, lickspittles, and courtiers, each seeking desperately to curry his favor or indulge his whims. I'm sure the Fox News green room is nice and all, but it's not like that.

The mental image is both apt and deeply, deeply disturbing...

Current Mood: amused

The Poorman figures it out:

This morning it hit me: the one thing Karl Rove cares about, when it comes his buddy Dubya, is influence. When he runs the poll numbers he wants them to be important, maybe the single most important factor in the President’s decision making. The Iraq War? Immigration? Social Security? Sure, these were major policy disasters, but you could at least make a plausible case that they’d help Bush and the GOP win over somebody or other. But what if Bush, on the advice of other, creepier members of his inner circle, was about to do something that was not only cataclysmically stupid, but wildly unpopular? What if Bush was about to completely torpedo the GOP for the next fifty years in pursuit of a frankly loopy goal, and Karl Rove not only knew it, but had been loudly complaining about it for months? What if Gee Dub simply wouldn’t listen to Karl, his most trusted advisor (armed, as ever, with copious polls), warning his old friend that he held a noose, not a lifeline, begging him not to cinch it quite so snugly about the frail, tubercular neck of their once proud, once shared dream of permanent Republican majority? Maybe then Turd Blossom would pack it in. So what could Bush be planning to do? What’s so much dumber than all the dumb things these dumbshits have done? Who in his administration could be giving Bush even worse advice on how to run the country than Rove was? Oh, right:

"If you’re wondering what the administration is up to in declaring a large part of Iran’s military a terrorist organization, there’s some pretty convincing analysis here that it’s a way to make an attack on Iran seem authorized by the Authorizations to Use Military Force passed by congress in ‘01 and ‘02 for attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. The linked post also argues that this is a sign that the war-mongering Cheney faction is once again ascendant."

Oh happy day!

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.

During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning. Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, did not return a call for comment.

If this is really true then I can safely say that I don't need a thing for my birthday 'cause I've just gotten the best gift ever.

In case you missed it yesterday, I redirect you to my post Uncle Karl's no good, rotten, very bad day, which points to several stories that reveal that Valerie Plame, the CIA agent who was outed by the Bush administration to attack her husband, when she was outed she was working on a project "tracking the proliferation of nuclear weapons material into Iran."

Yes, you read that correctly.

Glenn Greenwald analyzes the Bush apologists' response to this information which basically comes down to, "La,la,la, we can't hear anything you're saying!" Basically what you'd expect, yeah. Still, a fascinating read and definitely worth checking out.

White House spokesman resigning
Rove to lose policy portfolio

Tip of the hat to

ebongreen for pointing me here this morning. I only hope and pray that this is something of an indicator that Rove is in actual legal hot water. As for McClellen, those words were written on the wall weeks ago. Hell, every lefty blogger on the net was counting down to his resignation/firing. Can't wait to see who gets thrown to the lions next.

But I have to say that as much as this pleases me the fact that the only thing people can seem to talk or write about today is that Tom Cruise and his child brainwash victim have spawned. You know I can honestly say here that I don't give a flying fuck whether Scientology preaches that births must be silent or that she has to give birth on a trampoline, what the fuck does any of that matter? Jesus Christ, people, is this really all you fucking care about? If anybody talks about it in the office today I'm going to snap, I can just feel it.

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