Letters to the Editor
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Understandable
Rove is a high value target.
If he goes down, he takes with him the core of GW Bush white house. he is the chess Queen, so that pawns, bishops, knights and rooks will be sacrificed before letting this key figure be threatened.
If he gets questioned, even under oath, he may "forget" his way out of it. May he be indicted, wouldn't he take King George down with him?
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It's Not the Lies
It's the incompetence.
Americans accept that politicians and political operatives lie. They accept an actor playing the role of president, and of a president playing the role of cowboy. But they expect their lying SOB politicians to hire competent people. "So what if Reagan (Bush) doesn't have much experience? I like him! As long as he hires experienced, competent people, I think he'll be a great president" is something I've been hearing since 1980. Let's face it, most people are C students. They feel comfortable hanging around with other C students. But they want the brainy kids in important positions, so the likeable president can be freed up to sit on the porch and have a few beers with them.
Democrats want to snag a political operative into perjuring him or herself. But it's the incompetence they should showboat now that they've got center stage. Yeah, show the Bushies are lying - it's important.
But show how incompetent Bush's people are and the average C-student American will be horrified to see the country is being run by .... themselves.
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The Dark Force
This guy karl Rove is not an evil genius he's just evil. I suspect the reason this whole thing is falling apart and everything the Bush administration has touched has turned to shit is because they have one man running the entire operation but all he cares about is power and politics. So this is why they seem so incompetent.
All this time we/I thought it was Dick Cheney. But remember prior to his association with this dispicable man he had a long history of competent Government service. The same with Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and even believe it or not Donald Rumsfeld. All these people were made to look like they could not manage/lead their way out of a wet paper bag under the direction of this guy. WoW! What a revelation.
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Ole Sarge
If you think that Cheney and Rumsfield had years of upstanding civil service, you're reading the wrong history books. Spending years involved in government work doesn't mean that you were honorable, it just meant that you never got kicked out of the room.
Powell and Condi, on the other hand, are just sad examples of people getting what they thought they deserve, only to find themselves woefully unprepared for the job. Powell was competent as the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, but Secretary of State was overreaching. Condi would have been a great NSA chief or Secretary of State in the 1980s - her specialty is Cold War diplomacy - but it's no secret that she brought a knife to the gun fight in the diplomatic game of today.
Gonzalez will be asked to resign as an offering to the Congress to not keep pressing the issue. If he's gone and they keep pursuing it, all of a sudden the claim that this is a 'fishing expedition' starts to make more sense to people who don't really understand what the big deal about this scandal really is.
Tread softly Dems. Make sure that while you building up your head of steam you don't explode.
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Selective Amnesia
Back in the good ale’ days when I was a young Republican, I often suffered from a bizarre form of amnesia reminiscent of the recent memory loss coming out of the testimonies in Washington over the attorney scandal. Back then, it seems that whenever I did or said something offensive, disingenuous or downright dishonest, I would forget about it completely. Or worse yet, remember it as somehow being virtuous, pragmatic or noble. And yet ironically, I could remember whole episodes of Hee-Haw verbatim.
Now that I am firmly a progressive democrat my memory has improved considerably. I seem to have a much greater awareness of the effects of my words and actions— whether they are good or bad.
This phenomenon should be studied further. I’m sure that some ambitious young neuroscientist could make tenure from figuring out the origins of this unique political pathology.
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Rove's lies
Rove has proved two things:
1) Political power can be attained through the use of lies and deception.
2) Good governance is impossible when it is based on lies and deception.
Since Bush administration policies are so egregious, lies are all they can offer to those without an unquenchable thirst for ideological Kool-Aid.
If Rove is ever forced to testify under oath, we can be sure we will only be treated to more lies -- the truth is too horrific. A Bush pardon will moot any charges of perjury.
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A Niggling Point
Public servants serve in the public's interest.
Incompetence, graft, and blind ideology are seldom in the public's interest.
These people (Lurita Doan, Kyle Sampson, Albert Gonzales, David Savafian, Michael Brown, Lester Crawford, Francis Harvey, Gale Norton, Porter Goss, Claude Allen, Susan Ralston, Jim O'Beirne, et al., not to mention Bob Ney, Tom Delay, Curt Weldon, Mark Foley, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Irving "Scooter" Libby, et al., with more to come) are not "public servants".
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How about gingko biloba
for everyone?!
Nice big bottles right next to their glasses of water.
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I hear Kyle Sampson is singing like a canary!
They lost Himmler after the midterms, now Goebbels is threatened, this is too close for comfort so the wagon are being circled for this fight.
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122 times
Sampson responded "I don't know" or "I can't recall" 122 times in just a few hours of appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (see Huff Post)
At what point does a person who keeps no work-related records, or keeps them in his bottom right drawer, who can't remember anything about his job, who describes his role as "just the accumulator" -- deserve a "poor performance" rating and his ass kicked off our taxpayer-provided payroll?
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MC Rove
No wonder he was yucking (and shucking and jiving) it up at the correspondent's dinner: Karl Rove knows he is untouchable.