NYT:The Rovian Era

[cal04]

Turn over a scandal in Washington these days and the chances are you’ll find Karl Rove. His tracks are everywhere: whether it’s helping to purge United States attorneys, coaching bureaucrats on how to spend taxpayers’ money to promote Republican candidates, hijacking the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for partisan politics, or helping to organize a hit on the character of one of the first people to publicly reveal the twisting of intelligence reports on Iraq.

Whatever the immediate objective, Mr. Rove seems focused on one overarching goal: creating a permanent Republican majority, even if that means politicizing every aspect of the White House and subverting the governmental functions of the executive branch. This is not the Clinton administration’s permanent campaign. The Clinton people had difficulty distinguishing between the spin cycle of a campaign and the tone of governing. That seems quaint compared with the Bush administration’s far more menacing failure to distinguish the Republican Party from the government, or the state itself.

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Mr. Rove’s efforts to maintain one-party rule go deep into the government. Last week, we learned about a meeting set up by Mr. Rove’s staff with officials of the General Services Administration that was wildly inappropriate and perhaps illegal. The aim, as outlined by Mr. Rove’s deputy, Scott Jennings, seems to have been to take advantage of the billions of dollars in contracts put out by the agency every year to return Republicans to the majority in Congress in 2008. It included PowerPoint slides on vulnerable House and Senate seats.

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The investigation of the firings of the United States attorneys seems to be closing in on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who should have been fired weeks ago. But Congress should bring equal scrutiny to the more powerful Mr. Rove. If it does, especially by forcing him to testify in public, it will find that he has been at the vortex of many of the biggest issues they are now investigating.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/opinion/01sun1.html

[Olney Blue]

1. Notorious P.I.G. is a traitor.

[rwenos]

2. It's an Old Story

Marc Antony . . . Iago . . . Rasputin . . . Karl Rove.

Karl Rove could never get elected dogcatcher, but he had that Nietschean "will to power" -- thus he has sought it through others, particularly an affable, manipulable marionette named George W. Bush.

Rove is utterly cynical, utterly ambitious, utterly greedy.

"Pig" is perfect. This is the most dangerous man in America.

[deutsey]

4. Only he'll go on to become a high-paid pundit on CNN or FOX with a number

of highly lucrative book deals.

[femrap]

8. I see a wardrobe in orange

for him....Karma will get his ass.

[cassiepriam]

12. I keep thinking of Rasputin as well. And Machiavelli.

And yes, Rove is very very dangerous.

[Vincardog]

3. Can Congress get those Power Point Presentations out to the Public?

[133724]

14. try here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x529239

[rodeodance]

5. Thank you NYtimes

[Straight Shooter]

6. "menacing failure"

Amen.

[Catfight]

7. Don't they mean MC Rove, the ridiculous clown fat frat boy? nt

[JohnnyLib2]

9. Roviavellian politics: theme for our time.

Unfortunately for the nation.

[antonialee839]

10. I like that the NY Times pointed

out how Rove disappeared during the Libby trial, but is now back out there front and center.
Why isn't this despicable POS in jail?

[JohnnyLib2]

11. Survives somehow, like any cockroach!

[Vidar]

13. The last figure I can think of with the corrupting influende of Rove was

Boss Tweed.