Letters to the Editor
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Thanks for the lovely kiss-off to Karl
Oh, Mr. Keillor, you really made my day with your commentary on the exit of Turd Blossom. Too bad he wasn't stopped before now. I certainly hope he'll get his due one of these days. For those of us who live in Texas, there's a certain sense of dread that he'll try to work his "magic" here once again, but I hope he'll be stopped if he tries. I always love disgraced pols (and others) who leave office "to spend more time with the family" - I wonder if said family left Turd Blossom their forwarding address. If they were smart, they didn't.
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Best G.K. Ever Until That Odd Thing About Preachers And Net Worth
Too convoluted. Did you write this write before the deadline? MAYBE, if you had spoken this, you could have communicated that point, but, in righting ?????
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When the public didn't know who they were
There was a time when Presidential advisors remained behind the scenes. By the time Reagan ran for his second term they were running the show, and had the same names, or very nearly. Now it seems as though they are more powerful than the President, why? Probably because they aren't elected and answer to no one. Perhaps we should all take a dose of salts and admit we are just electing the man who appoints the leader of this country. Pretty soon we will be electing the man who appoints the man, who appoints the man.
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I remember when...
I just looked up Sydney Blumenthals article last year of the Bush/Rove visit to the Clinton Library. What pricks they were then and now:
"Offstage, beforehand, Rove and Bush had had their library tours. According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his tour guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly, "I change Constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician -- as the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact."
It is satisfying to see him leave as a complete failure isn't it? Please reread this gem - its actually enjoyable now:
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/blumenthal/2004/11/25/clinton_library/index.html
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call me crazy...
but I cant help but feel that Rove resigned for reasons other than those mentioned in MSM (family, fear of congressional subpoena etc). I have a feeling that he must have seen that things have gotten out of even his control in the White House. If you notice the NYT, they want to brand the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization, maybe as a prelude for going to war with Iran. Rove, seeing that advice to Bush on taking US to war with Iraq wasn't such a good advice after all, must have cautioned him against sucking whatever Cheney was giving Bush, and maybe Bush must have said "Screw You Rove, I am having my war with Iran and if you dont like it you can get the hell out!"
Rove doesnt want his name with the fiasco that will be Iran war in the coming months.
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Don't look now, but as things stand Rove leaves as a winner
He is set for life. As long as he doesn't get a prison sentence, he will spend the rest of his years earning six or seven figure speaking fees. That is assuming he doesn't play king-maker with some other nitwit.
The only hope of making this man pay for his crimes is to wait until there is a Democrat in the Oval Office to prosecute him, so he doesn't get his auto-pardon.
It doesn't matter how we judge him now, or how history judges him. Right now he walks away on top. And that is what sucks the most to me.
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Hmph.
I just realized that I can't tell the difference between timbuktom and tomreedtoon.
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It Is Too Late
The Rovian tragedy unfolding in Washington will unfold just as if he were still there.
The damage is done. Bush's legacy is pretty well fixed and Rove can drift away, like a fart in the wind.
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Pardons
i suspect that the timing of his "resignation" has to do with indictments coming down (possibly personal) and he wants to get through it in time for bush to pardon him. He is an insult to the Baby Boom generation which has been castigated but I am happy I was lucky enough to be a part of.
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The First Letter- alexsim
Forward address? His "cell number"...
You mean his cell number #- as in prison cell number #- ?
I hate cussing or conjuring up disgusting thoughts but, I hope the prison cell mate is GWB, Chaney, Rice, Remorseful, Colin etc., and they are stacked in a single cell with one filthy toilet bowl that has turds from previous White Collar Criminals. These criminals should be stacked in the prison jail cell like halibut's, sardines, mackerels, cod, suckers, mud-bottom feeders, tad-poles, crappies etc., and if former DOJ's JOHN Ashcroft testifies against them, he can be the Mr. bowl cell cleanser. I can extend Merci to him because he can't carry a tune in a bowl bucket. NO pardons to the rest of the foul ingrates.
I know that sounds a bit harsh and non-merciful? NO! It may seem a hick's backwardness comment, but I was arrested while these rascals were in DC. I still see that dirty crapper the former cell occupant left me. I wrote John Ashcroft, FBI, District Attorney's tried me etc., This was all beginning after I was arrested in a predator Bank around the time JOHN A. was having gall bladder problems. I reckon Mr Chertoff, the WCC Investigator was too busy sending "get well" condolences cards to JOHN in DC to write a jail cell inmate like me back?
If I know any of their "cell number" and they are in jail for ever, they get NO toilet bowl cleanser Thanksgiving presents from me.
They can stare at a dirty toilet bowl throughout eternity as Justice due, but I'm not a lawyer.
P.S. Last time I wrote Garrison Keillor I was censored and "knocked off" the site.
If Garrison can talk publicly about Karl Roves boutonniere, I ought to be able to mention I HOPE NO toilet bowl cleanser is in the jail cell. They all deserve a long stay @ the publicrestroom.jailcell.
Have a nice bowel evacuation after the disgusting canoe ride and stinking career.
The whole batch of filth cons love to hurt people. I bet journalist Mary McGrory would send Karl and the whole crew a dirty phone message if she knew the jail cell number? I need a rest room with no Internet service. Later. 'um sleezy aligators.