So. Fucking. What.

Why is everybody getting all hot and bothered about Rove's departure?  He, like James Baker, has been picking up behind the Bush family elephant for years, and he will continue to do so.  The Boy King can just pick up the phone, and Karl will school him in the next episode of ratfucking.  Nothing will change.  Three Friedmans from now things will be even worse.  It's the Bush family way.

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[tata]

Is it possible the peace-loving Dutch will bag him for trial before the international tribunal? Wouldn't it be delightful if he were renditioned extraordinarily?

[actor212]

True, but this way, he can also run Romney's campaign.

[litbrit]

Ah, lawyer-san, counsel thyself.

It's all about Attorneygate. Rove ordered firings to try to sway the '06 elections, and the behind-the-scenes developments in that scandal are what he's running away from.

Family, schmamily. (Some of my friends didn't even know Rove had a family!)

[blogenfreude]

It's all about Attorneygate.

I don't know what it's about, and I don't care. The point is that this little jellyfish will be counseling Bush unless he's in a Supermax prison (and then maybe still). Until the Dems get up off their asses and use inherent contempt to haul all the criminals before the various committees, it's all stemwinding.

[litbrit]

Until the Dems get up off their asses

Well, that would require them not being afraid of the shadows of said asses. When my citizenship comes through, I am SO registering as an Independent. I simply can't support the sort of spinelessness they've demonstrated thus far. They've been handed all manner of probable cause--hell, evidence!--and given Congress in 06 with the very clear wishes of the public being that the WAR MUST END and the criminals must be stopped. Yet they cower and twitch and back down when Rove et. al. say BOO. Feh.

[SPIIDERWEB™]

My guess is he's gonna start strategizing for 2008. He can't leave the game. He's addicted. Rove has to steal another election for the GOP.

How easy the public accepts these people as being like the rest of us. They aren't. They are power hungry manipulators and they don't ever walk away.

Must I mention Kissinger?

[blogenfreude]

My guess is he's gonna start strategizing for 2008. He can't leave the game. He's addicted. Rove has to steal another election for the GOP.

Nope. No candidate, with the exception of Brownback or Tancredo, is stupid enough to be seen with him. He's toxic. Also, I don't think his 'skills' will transfer.

[JollyRoger]

I'm inclined to agree. The scumbag wasn't ever all that "skillful" anyway, which is why the electioneering was also always required.

[Comandante Agi]

and he'll get off scot free - it's also the Bush family way

[Frederick]

I hear it's nice in Argentina this time of year...

[actor212]

Paraguay, Frederick, Paraguay.

And Rove could still work behind the scenes with any campaign he chose to.

[bdr]

Exactly right. I've been saying the same thing and getting There He Goes Again looks. Hah.