Rove Aid Resigns

[Beetwasher]

Source: TPM Muckraker

Maybe it's a coincidence.

White House political director Sara Taylor is out the door at the White House, according to Washington Wire. Taylor came up a number of times yesterday during the Kyle Sampson hearing as having worked closely with Sampson (along with another Karl Rove aide Scott Jennings) to install Rove's former aide Tim Griffin as the U.S. Attorney in eastern Arkansas.

"Barry Jackson, a longtime aide to Karl Rove, also is thought to be leaving soon.... All the departures appear to be more-or-less routine turnover," reports the Washington Wire.



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[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Friday Afternoon News Dump

[soothsayer]

2. don't fall on your sword for big fat fetus head!

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. More-Or-Less Routine Turnover????

You've got to be frickin' kidding me.

[Kagemusha]

18. It is routine to turn over minor staff in the political hot seat, I guess?

As opposed to attorney generals and stuff. Sheesh.

[Supersedeas]

30. more disgusting WH spin designed to appease the 29%ers who are left

[underpants]

4. Oh for the halcyon days of...earlier this week

[Xipe Totec]

17. That's the before picture, and here is the after

[maddezmom]

5. this little snip was in the Wa Po this am

White House political director Sara M. Taylor, who has worked with Bush since April 1999, when he was starting his first presidential run, told Rove in December that she plans to leave in the spring, according to friends. Special adviser Peter D. Feaver, the top White House specialist on public opinion during wartime, plans to return this summer to Duke University, where his two-year leave is expiring. Other officials have left the legislative affairs, domestic policy, homeland security, staff secretary, public liaison, speechwriting and first lady's offices.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032902092.html

[Beetwasher]

9. LOL!

Looks like Mr. Peter Baker might have been helping out his pal Rove w/ a bit of groundwork, eh?

[maddezmom]

11. yeah, it's all normal not anything to see here

:sarcasm: Wonder if she'll plead the 5th if called.

[Roland99]

6. She was apparently planning to leave in the spring anyway. Yeah, planning since when?

When the news of the partisan witch-hunt against non-loyal Bushie US Attorneys spread?

[The Count]

13. November 2006? Libby trial times? So many opportunities, family needed her

[IWantAChange]

7. What kind of individual has loyalty to someone like Turdblossom??

[Roy]

24. The unprincipled, very well (taxpayer) paid kind.

But you already knew that, I'm sure.

[ginnyinWI]

8. coincidence or not, it LOOKS bad, happening this week. n/t

[bdamomma]

10. the rats are fleeing the ship!!!!!!!!

[lyonn]

23. Can't you just see Our Great Leader standing at the helm,

going down with the ship like a true captain would. Pure sarcasm

So, how does the Dear Dense One handle being this country's worst president ever?

He's too stupid/brainless to begin to understand what a disaster he has been for this country.

When we see them hauling him out the back door of the White House, in a straight jacket, we will know we have been freed.

[fshrink]

12. Fuse # 267 fried.

Motherboard still functional.

[Ian David]

14. They're all resigning to move to Bush's Apocalypse Survival Camp in Paraguay (some people say). n/t

[cassiepriam]

22. Like when all the Nazis went to south America after WWII?

[progressoid]

15. That's OK, she can still get subpoenaed

[Gregorian]

16. Color me optimistic.

And thank you DU for my political education!

It's not too soon to say, we did it.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

19. Kick

[mikelgb]

20. yeah routine for the CYA Whitehouse

[gratuitous]

21. Yeah, coincidence

Like, every time I flick this switch into the "up" position, that light goes on. And every time I flick it into the "down" position, the light goes off.

Just a coincidence.

[superconnected]

25. ciao wingnut!

Don't let the door hit ya in the ass!

[tom_paine]

26. Subpeona Sara Taylor and ALL Loyal Bushie felons.

Lock these criminals into thjeir story under oath, so that when they tell different lies later they can be arrested and jailed.

[Pachamama]

27. When's Rove leaving?

But I want to see him leaving in handcuffs....

[AndyTiedye]

28. I Hope She Has a Long SINGING Career Ahead of Her

[truthisfreedom]

29. They seem to let these folks go if they have stories that differ with the administrations spin.

It's a kind of pre-emptive strike... if the person resigned or was dismissed, their credibility is shot, so their version of events when speaking under oath can be forcefully denied by higher-ups in the administration.

It's clearly being operated as a mafia. This administration is an illegal one.