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O, woe is us!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush confronted Rove’s sins in church
POSTED June 9, 8:41 AM
Fired and brimestone
If you’re going to fire someone, you want to make sure you do it in a place where the now-unemployed can’t make a scene.
You know…a place like, say, a church.
That, according to a new book – “Machiavelli’s Shadow” – by former Time magazine reporter Paul Alexander, is where President George W. Bush informed trusted advisor Karl Rove in 2007 that his services would no longer be needed at the White House.
“On a Sunday in midsummer, George W. Bush accompanied Karl Rove to the Episcopalian Church Rove sometimes attended,” writes Alexander. “They made their way to the front of the congregation. Then, during their time in the church, Bush gave Rove some stunning news. ‘Karl,’ Bush said, ‘there’s too much heat on you. It’s time for you to go.’”
Maybe Bush knew what he was doing in breaking such bad news in such serene atmosphere: As Alexander documents, Rove has quite the temper.
"He's got a temper and a loud voice and he used it," said Bill Miller, a consultant who worked for and against Rove in Texas. "He's known for getting hot. There are buttons people know about. Losing and getting screwed with will [upset] him in a hurry."
CQ's Craig Crawford recalls this moment from 1999, when Crawford was editing National Journal's Hotline: "I thought Bush was called Bush Junior," Crawford told Alexander. "So, at Hotline, because we needed a device in our headlines to delineate him from Bush Senior, we were just calling him Bush Junior. Well, one day I picked up the phone and there was this person screaming at me on the other end. It was just nonstep yelling. It was Karl Rove and I mean he tore my head off over our calling Bush Bush Junior."
"Machiavelli's Shadow" doesn't portray Rove in a favorable light and Alexander includes plenty of interviews with GOP notables unsatisfied with Rove's influence during the Bush administration.
"Every Republican I know looks at the Bush administration as a total failure," said Matt Towery, chairman of Newt Gingrich's political organization.
“To do what he did politically to us is unforgivable," Rep. Tom Tancredo told Alexander. "It will take generations to recover. I don't know how long; maybe never."
"I think the legacy is that Karl Rove will be a name that'll be used for a long, long time as an example of how not to do it," said long-time GOP strategist Ed Rollins.
http://www.examiner.com/blogs-73-Yeas_and_Nays~y2008m6d9-Bush-confronted-Roves-sins-in-church
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Ron Paul
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Will save the conservative movement! He will deliver more conservative babies!
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Liberal appeaser BS!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree we need a new center, but one where both sides are committed to civil discourse and real solutions. That's not presently the case.
-- natesmith124
Brightstar65 is a geenius! Listen to him and NORBITBOY!
You're ragging on Ron Paul?
then YOU are the problem that needs to be exterminated if this REPUBLIC is to survive.
Because I sure as hell did not sign up to be ruled over by a bunch of know-it-all punks (left OR right) in Washington who want to create the inevitable fascist state that is currently so fashionable amongst you oh-so-sophisticated politerati.
Ron Paul is the only solution to the current Constitutional crisis. Anyone challenging this is an enemy of the state.
http://letters.salon.com/f7e105b5e58f5e1c6ff56290f24cb1f4/author/index155.html
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Tina Trent is a fascist!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]President McCain
now has my vote. At least he'll count it.
http://letters.salon.com/847e878f66e26affc3955893736b4188/author/index29.html
And she blows goats! Prove me wrong!
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Salon
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has some of the dumbest commenters on the intertubes.
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@natesmith124
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]No I don't. And you are a clueless idiot.
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Sorry, Tina
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, Just for the Record
I don't blow goats.
It is almost impossilbe, (unless you are Bertrand Russell or some other master logician) to prove a negative. Salon commenters: Skull bone-crushing dumbness.