Posted on 07/14/2005 1:05:53 AM PDT by Crackingham
Republicans are nervously watching the fight over Karl Rove's involvement in a news leak that exposed a CIA officer's identity, fearing that President Bush's chief adviser has become a major political problem. While the president passed up another chance Wednesday to express confidence in his deputy chief of staff, his political team engineered a series of testimonials from members of Congress who praised Rove and condemned Democratic critics.
"The extreme left is once again attempting to define the modern Democratic Party by rabid partisan attacks, character assassination and endless negativity," said Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., chairman of the GOP congressional committee. The Republican National Committee, virtually a political arm of the White House, urged GOP lawmakers to go public.
Still, several top GOP officials — including some White House advisers — said the fight was becoming a distraction to Bush's agenda. The GOP officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid looking disloyal, said the president may face a credibility problem because his spokesman said in September that anybody involved in the leak would be fired.
These Republicans, all admirers of Rove, said they were surprised and disappointed when Bush stopped short of publicly backing his longtime aide. A survey of Republicans outside Washington revealed similar concerns, though few officials were willing to go on record.
"I think he should resign," said Jim Holt, a GOP state senator from Arkansas who is running for lieutenant governor. He joked, "I hope Karl Rove doesn't come gunning for me."
LOL! Wishful thinking, AP.
As I have said before, anything short of an indictment and Rove is safe.
Ron Fournier continues to experience wet dreams I see..
Fournier is a liberal hack, always has the same template.
Uhh, isn't this a normal thing for the party in the White House, to have it's national committee on their team? Is the RNC supposed to be out helping Dims or something?
I'm a Republican, and I am not nervous - I instead gleefully anticipate Rove's exculpation and a great deal of rotten eggs on the faces of a large number of Democrats and their media catspaws.
president passed up another chance...to express confidence
his political team engineered...testimonials
fearing
speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid looking disloyal
may face a credibility problem
Nope, no bias here!
Someone needs to investigate the relationship between the White House and the RNC; I think they are guilty of collusion and conspiracy. (sarcasm)
LOL! Literally laughing in Fournier's face over this one.......when Clinton was in office, not only was the DNC "virtually a political arm of the White House", so was the CIA, FBI, IRS, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, MTV, AP, RF (Ron Fournier) etc, etc,.......
One of the really amazing things about this whole "story" is how the usual RINO suspects (McCain, Graham, Chaffee, etc.) have not come out to do the media's dirty work for them. And you know the media has just got to be begging them non-stop to say anything they can use to portray the White House as being even more on the run.
As it is, all they can scrounge up to show the latest "dissension within the GOP ranks" is some moonbat candidate for Lt. Governor of Arkansas.
To be nice about it, let us just say that the opinion of GOP Sen. Jim Holt from AR might not be the wisest standard of judgment on which to make a decision, and let it be done with that.
That's a very good word! LIBOTOMY!
I would say the feminine analogue of that procedure is evident in Pelosi, Boxer and Mz. Clinton and I do use Mz. loosely!
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