Experts urge Bush to quickly address Rove situation

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http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=ROVE-07-12-05&cat=WW

Experts urge Bush to quickly address Rove situation
By MARGARET TALEV
McClatchy Newspapers
July 12, 2005

WASHINGTON - President Bush appeared to be standing by chief political adviser Karl Rove on Tuesday, but for a second day he resisted pressure to address a growing controversy over what role Rove played in the leaking of a CIA operative's identity two years ago.

Democrats, meanwhile, began calling on the president either to dismiss Rove, who is a White House deputy chief of staff, or go public with details that could clear him in connection with leaks in 2003 that revealed that Valerie Plame, the wife of a former ambassador, Joe Wilson, was a CIA officer.

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"I would not be surprised to see Karl Rove resign," said Lyn Nofziger, a former aide to President Nixon and former campaign press secretary and political adviser to President Reagan. "That does not mean he's going to, or that he should, but the pressures put on him and the president sometimes don't leave you much of an alternative."

Nofziger said that even if the controversy was being hyped by Democrats out to embarrass the president, given the nature of the subject matter, "This is turning out to be a much more serious problem for the Bush White House than they thought it would be."

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[Roland99]

1. But he can't comment on "an ongoing criminal investigation"

:rofl:

[wakeme2008]

2. Bush will do just what he did on the Bolton matter

Stand behind Rove all the way.. :grr:

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. He has to stand by Rove. If one goes down, they all go down.

[tuvor]

3. Bein' a puppet's hard work

Especially when the puppeteer is preoccupied.

[kenny blankenship]

4. If Bush's Brain is a traitor

what does that make Bush? When you pull the weed, be sure to get the root.

[lancdem]

5. This is a good article

We on DU know, of course, that neither Bush nor Rove will address this head on; that's why it's only going to get worse.

[FormerRepublican]

6. I wouldn't want to separate Bush from his chief advisor ...

...so can't they both just resign together? Huh?

:(

[Cha]

7. If it's true,

nofziger..then, yeah, it will be EMBARRASSING for bushrove.

And why would the chimphouse think anything is "serious"..they've never had to be accountable until now when the pigs are flying and "a snowball just whizzed by satan's head"!!

[Son of California]

8. Lets hope Rove doesn't leave...

and drags the presidents approval ratings down in to the 30s!

[murielm99]

10. I'm just waiting for them to find a way for Rove to resign, but

not really resign.

He could turn in a formal resignation, and in a few months, be assigned quietly to a job in another government agency. But he would still be advising *, and still be acting as *'s brain.

They are devious enough to pull anything.

[radfringe]

11. there's more to it than just ROVE

Rove is just one potato in a bigger field. His outing of Plame was an attempt to discredit Wilson.

The real crime is buried in the WHY DISCREDIT WILSON? Wilson discredited bush*'s statement about Niger-Yellowcake-Iraq connection. In other words Wilson said bush* lied.

This is the real story - the lieing about WMDs in Iraq and the continuing serial spin on why we are in Iraq.

Does anyone know why we are really in Iraq? Ask a bunch of people at random and you'll get different answers depending on which news station they watch, and what flavor of kook-aid they are drinking today.