Tim Grieve.

Thanks to you.

Would be fitting.

He thinks that he got away with it.

Deep in his heart, perhaps he thinks that, since he's getting out unindicted, he's a winner.

Somebody should remind him, though: no matter how much a myth he was or is or ever will be, he's no Lee Atwater.

It will take years, vats of disinfectant and many sessions on their shrink's couch to cleanse the White House of the stink spread there by Karl Rove and to analyze why supposedly law-abiding Republicans would embrace this miscreant's misdeeds with such fervor.

I suggest that Bernstein & Woodward write yet another tell-all book on the Bush Administration with Karl Rove as the focus. Instead of "All The President's Men", they could call it "All The President's Sphincter."

Best descriptor of Karl Rove...ever.

My first thought when I heard this was, "Rats leaving a sinking ship." Then I realized that I was incorrect.

It is obvious that Rove is leaving so that his communications will no longer be covered by Federal retention laws. He's still going to be the dick (no, the other Dick) we've always known.

Karl's not gone; just changing his base of operations. He has too many dirty tricks and discontent left to disperse.

Rove's son is in college... Why not Iraq? No college deferments for sons (and daughters) of Chickenhawks.

If Rove cuts and runs for his own family's sake, can America "cut and run" for our families' sakes?

Rove isn't quitting, he's strategically withdrawing, regrouping, and preparing for a new "surge"... Lookout Democrats for Rove in '08. Start working on neutralizing him now. Get him behind bars if you can.

Look for the REAL reason he's cutting his losses and running for cover.

Darth Rove will "try not to laugh" as he sits stone-faced at his war tribunal case. In my entire 59 years I never thought I'd witness the ultimate in disgraceful ethics that he perpetrated in American politics. Indeed, a life span that included the Bay of Pigs, Viet Nam, the bombing of Cambodia, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Clinton's over-sexed love life, nauseating preemptive war, stolen elections, bold-faced Treason, unbelievable corruption, and, probably most sadly, the loss of our best asset, a "free press" to lend oversight to the litany of these ills, will be Rove's trademark accomplishment. The neocon heyday has placed this once proud nation on tract to become a third-rate banana republic run by greedy, super-rich, cynics who feed-off their own population to reach that enormous wealth.

Rove's place in history, if it isn't, God forbid, written by one of his protégés, will place him at the heart of this sorry end.

When he reads the things he is accused of he laughs... The rest of the world weeps.

They want to get him out thinking that it will make him less of a target. Who knows what else has been discovered on the Hill at this point about Rove's machinations--in addition to Tim's list.

More important than any of it, Rove is the guy who figured out how to connect the religious right with the Republican party. This is what has changed American politics. He took the genie out of the bottle and gave the bottom fedders a voice. When and how it's ever going to be put back in is the real problem he caused. If America's rascists, bigots, homophobics, xenophobes, and religiously intolerate contiinue to exert as much influence as they have, and attention diverted from the real problems facing the country, the future is going to be a nightmare.

Will the "neo-liberals" learn? Is there anything that can reach out to them--the way abortion coalesed the right? Will they get it after social security runs out of money, the next war has even more deadly consequences, or the oil lobby destroys the planet? The next presidential should tell us something, but it's going to take a long time to correct the damage.

I would suggest the title "Mission Accomplished: How I Used the Constitution to Wipe My Butt and Wrecked the United States of America."

If this were Rome, Rove would have been dragged into the Tiber on a hook by now.

Please be aware of any OTHER news that might be dumped by the Administration in the midst of this kerfuffle over TurdBlossom, ok?

I'm just nervous that they're "introducing 'new' product" in August as a diversionary tactic, in order to slide some other, less palatable news in under the radar.

You know, that whole, "Look over there! A bright, shiny object!!" manipulation of the press corps that we've suffered through so many, many times before (and which may have Rove himself to thank for its popularity, now that I think of it).

Thanks.

...if you know that Rove will never be "resigned" from power.

Now, we can move along in reality despite the talking points and PR displays.

Once a plugged-in power elite, always a....

ends when he leaves the White House, yes? Meaning, congress can subpoeana his emails, phone calls and Christmas cards to W or anyone else at the White House. Because executive privelege does't extend to non-employees.

Can congress get a warrantless wiretap on him, in the interests of homeland security?

Tim, why would anyone look forward to Rove's memoirs except in a spirit of morbid curiosity? It's obvious it will all be self-serving lies along with sliming of his opponents and critics. The only thing to really look forward to is its predictably poor sales (though he's like to pull a seven figure advance).

it was so much more fun when they were in the ascendant, in the immediate days after 9/11 all the way up to 'Mission accomplished' and even winning the '04 Election..

it's a lot less fun when you're surrounded from every side by people who no longer believe a word you say, and this even from your own side. It takes a very big man to stand up to that kind of pressure and I guess that it helps if you believe in what you're doing and haven't buried any bodies, none of which applies to Rove, an administrative Pol Pot.

Who was it again who was waiting outside his office and overheard him screaming on the phone (before he came out all charming smiles) "we will f*** you like you've never been f**** before"

I guess those days are over for Karl, he is in short totally f***d and what a world class middle-aged dirtbag he is/was. The laws of entropy dictate that's it's far easier to smash a Ming vase than to make one, you will spend years, if you even ever succeed, trying to undo the harm this heinous moral deviant has inflicted on your body politic.

This is a big story, watch as one right-wing talking head after another tries to minimise it.