Rove to Name Names.
Karl Rove is apparently writing a new book.
Rove sees a presidency clouded by the way it began.
“There were people who never accepted the legitimacy of George W. Bush and acted accordingly,” he said.
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“Look,” Rove said, “he didn’t come here to play small ball.”
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“I’ve got behind-the-scenes episodes that are going to show how unreceiving they were of this man as president of the United States,” Rove said, adding: “I’m going to name names and show examples.”
:::Delaware Dem raises his hand:::
Yes, the horrible truth is out. I never accepted Bush’s legitimacy as our duly elected President, and I acted accordingly. And then Bush governed as if the Constitution of the United States did not exist, and that only confirmed my opinion of him as illegitimate. So you got me, Karl. But I am not sorry.
Yeah, I read this earlier. One of many funny comments I liked, “Just name it PHONE BOOK”!
Another, “We already have a phone book”.
What an honor to be in THAT!
See also http://tinyurl.com/amcnb
That would be another thing I’d wish for.
I was going to blog on this, too. If Rove is going to name names of the more than 100,000,000 Americans who hate George Bush, then he’d better sign a multi-volume deal for this book because one book ain’t gonna be enough!
Are they freakin’ kidding me?
Karl Rove says that “Washington never accepted him”? Well, only if you don’t remember that they came into town running both the Executive and Congress and made enough changes in the Judicial along the way to be able to claim to run that too. K Street decidedly changed hands (because Tom Delay told them not to send any Democrats up to the Hill) and the media was also in their pocket. All of the levers of power were very much oriented to BushCo and here is Rove coming back with the damn victimization narrative again. Sheesh. Do these people EVER stop with this mess? And if you read to the end of the article you see that the old (Texas) band came back together to start thinking about the Bush legacy.
They didn’t come to play small ball, indeed. The guy decided that he had a mandate to loot the treasury on behalf of richer Americans and US businesses and that is what they did. And when 9/11 happened, they used that as a vector to send more money to their pals. He didn’t play small ball when it came to his agenda, but when it came to running the government (his only mandate) he couldn’t do it.
I was very, very sure that Rove quit when he did to start the Bush Legacy Rehabilitation Industry and here they are. And get ready folks, the liberal media will be credulously reporting every bit of their imagined victimization.
I hope I’m on the list!
Yeah, I think it might be easier to list the people who do like Bush.
DD wrote:
Which was a truly childish attitude on your part. George W Bush is your president right now, just as he is my president. At noon on January 20th, Barack Obama will be my president, and just because I didn’t vote for him, didn’t want him to win, and don’t think that he’ll lead the country in the right direction, I won’t be so immature as to say he isn’t our president.
I agree with Dana on this point.
Well, certainly you and Dana must recognize the circumstances of Obama’s election in 2008 and Bush’s election in 2000 were somewhat different.
Obama was not installed by the Supreme Court.
I don’t know. Bush certainly didn’t recognize our legitimacy as citizens, so we might be even.
Dana,
No president of mine tortures people, spies on citizens without warrants, steals elections, imprisons people without trials, charges, or representation, starts wars of aggression based on lies, politicizes the justice department, undermines voting rights of minorities, lets our country be attacked after being warned, destroys our economy, and on and on and on….
He may be your president – 66% of repubs like you today STILL think he is doing a “good job” – but he ain’t mine and he never ever will be.
What is truly childish is unquestioned respect for authority that doesn’t deserve it.
You and Nemski can have him.
What’s Rove’s point? That Bush sucked because he didn’t get every single thing he wanted? Guess what? He got every single thing he wanted.
The real question is – how is Rove setting up Palin for ’12 ? There is no way he is not working some kind of sick fucked up angle that you’d have to be a nemski to fall for.
Yes, but Jason, his work for McCain was too little, too late. The irony of helping out a candidate that he worked pretty hard to destroy eight years before may have just been too much, in the back of his evil mind.
Evil.
Worst. President. EVER.
🙁