Posted on 08/14/2007 4:06:13 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Karl Rove, the presidential adviser dubbed "George Bush's brain," has announced he will resign at the end of this month. Hold the applause. This master of back alley political tactics has been the architect of the worst administration in America's history. His very successes were catastrophic for the country. George Bush was never much interested in history or in policy. He didn't travel widely or exhibit curiosity about other nations. His passion was politics. He was an acolyte of Lee Atwater, master of dirty tricks and race-based politics. And in Rove, he found his instrument, a man for whom political calculation overruled morality, policy or even the national interest.
Rove boasted that he would forge an enduring ruling majority for conservatives, yoking the wealth of the global corporations and banks with the troops of the religious right. He had his way. He helped steal an election in 2000. He used Sept. 11 for partisan purposes and he consolidated the right's hold in 2002 and 2004.
The result was catastrophic for the country. The policies that Bush and Rove pursued fed a Gilded Age of inequality and the worst corporate crime wave in history.
Abroad, Rove stood with the neocons who scorned the "reality based community." They thought the United States was so powerful militarily, it could create its own reality. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were used to turn the president into a "commander in chief." The vital reconstruction in both was botched, starved of funds and troops, even as Rove was having the president declare "mission accomplished." The result was to generate more recruits for al-Qaeda across the world, even as it reconstructed its strength in the mountains of Pakistan. The triumph of spin and ideology over reality helped create the worst foreign policy debacle in our nation's history. Worse, Rove cynically used the Sept. 11 attacks for partisan political purpose. He pushed for trampling the laws and constitution of the country to show that the president was strong and Democrats weak. He had the president charge Democrats with being weak on security because they tried to protect the basic rights of workers herded into the gargantuan Department of Homeland Security. He helped re-elect the president at the price of dividing the nation and embittering our politics. A president who should have brought the nation together ended up driving us apart.
Bush and Rove largely had their way. And the results were horrific -- Iraq, Katrina, the attempt to privatize Social Security, the starving of vital investments at home, the plundering of billions by contractors in Iraq, the posturing over Terri Schiavo's tragedy, the failure to address climate change, energy dependence, skyrocketing trade deficits, growing inequality, a broken health-care system, soaring college costs. The list goes on.
All this has discredited the president and the conservative movement. Yet, as he leaves, Rove predicts the president will come back by once more trampling the nation's interest for partisan purposes. Rove has set up a battle over warrantless wiretapping to divide Democrats. The president plans to veto spending bills over minor differences to placate the right. Rove's team is ready to sell "progress" in Iraq. The constitution, the truth, the nation's interest will be sacrificed to partisan politics. This country will pay the price of his poisonous work for years to come.
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Inaccurate. Mr. Rove had nothing to do with the Carter administration.
Jesse Jackson calling somebody a master of race-based politics, is nothing short of incredible.
Up is down, dark is light...
Wait till this guy finds out that Rove’s next job will be completing the Death Star.
Yeah - considering how Brother Jesse’s an expert on any topic imaginable, it’s surprising he’s never heard the old pot and kettle thing.
I do find interesting though the phrase “reality based community”. This is also a hallmark of the Left, accusing their enemies of THEIR OWN faults and tactics. There is no willing acceptance of “reality” by the Leftists and there never will be. Their reality is an endless excercise in narcissistic self-gratification and fantasy in which reality has no place. crisis de jure and hyperventilated chicken little politics are their tools of the trade.
Thats not to say that there is no such thing as corporate greed and big money corruption, of course there is. The real job is separating the facts from the invented and distorted myths of the Left.
jesse jack@ss is a cartoooooon!
Leftists are always guilty of such psychotic projection - it is amazing to see them accusing others of everything the left is guilty of — race baiting, vicious back alley politics, dishonest hucksterism, etc. Jesse Jackoff is one of the worst practitioners in US history of the politics of hateful demagoguery.
“He was an acolyte of Lee Atwater, master of dirty tricks and race-based politics.”
Atwater sounds like the perfect Dem campaigner. Dems, masters of “race-based politics”. And here’s this Dem reporter saying it like it’s a bad thing.
Republicans are the ones who generally want a color-blind society, rather than a society of whiny racist special interest groups. In the meantime, due to the political realities right now, Republicans have to reach out and try and break the stranglehold Dems have over some ethnic groups.
The Dems are just sad Karl’s on the other side, really. He’s been very successful.
‘Abroad, Rove stood with the neocons who scorned the “reality based community.” They thought the United States was so powerful militarily, it could create its own reality.’
Just to cherry pick a bit more nonsense, this stuff is priceless. What a silly way to say “he thought we could win”. Looks like Karl was right again.
“He was an acolyte of Lee Atwater, master of dirty tricks and race-based politics.”
Atwater sounds like the perfect Dem campaigner. Dems, masters of “race-based politics”. And here’s this Dem reporter saying it like it’s a bad thing.
Republicans are the ones who generally want a color-blind society, rather than a society of whiny racist special interest groups. In the meantime, due to the political realities right now, Republicans have to reach out and try and break the stranglehold Dems have over some ethnic groups.
The Dems are just sad Karl’s on the other side, really. He’s been very successful.
‘Abroad, Rove stood with the neocons who scorned the “reality based community.” They thought the United States was so powerful militarily, it could create its own reality.’
Just to cherry pick a bit more nonsense, this stuff is priceless. What a silly way to say “he thought we could win”. Looks like Karl was right again.
Was this man asleep during the Sydney Blumenthal days? Now that was a man whose sole job was to destroy any political enemies the clintons had. Oh and dont forget Lanny Davis. They hate Rove for one reason. He wins
Jesse Jackson is a hate filled racist, shake down artist and bag man. I cringe every time his kind blames Katrina on Bush. The travesty here is that Jackson and Sharpton and Farakhan are who an entire race of people have chosen to represent them. That’s the sad part.
I assume that Jesse has already personally apologized to the Duke Lacrosse players for his inappropriate and inaccurate incrimatory accusations?
Otherwise he has no business even showing his face in public let alone trying to pontificate via the papers with more of his hate speech (this time airmed at Rove).
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