AMERICABlog: Bush was supposed to show support for KKKarl, but didn't

[Goldmund]

Think Progress has the transcript. Now, Bush can't talk during an investigation either. Could last year, can't this year.

Update: AP claims Bush was supposed to show support for Rove, but didn't, hmmm:

Bush's statement was a surprise for some White House advisers and senior Republicans who had expected the president to deliver a vote of confidence for Rove, his deputy chief of staff. Two Bush advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was poised to speak for himself at the Cabinet meeting, said shortly before his remarks that the president intended to signal his support of Rove - without prejudging the merits of the case - during that picture-taking session. Indeed, they said, he was prepared to do so a day earlier but the question was not posed in the question-and-answer session Tuesday.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/07/bush-sticks-to-rove-talking-points.html

[dogday]

1. When the sh*t starts flying --

it is always best to get out of the way.....

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Exactly

That's what these people do. They dump them and don't stand up for their own. I think it's great how now even Bush is backing away. LOL!

[Raiden]

14. Yeah, Mr. "Loyalty"

Heehee :popcorn:

[RobertSeattle]

2. Afterwards, Bush looks down at finger - that's what the string is for!

Dooh.

[barbaraann]

3. Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) today in the One Minute Speeches did not

look at the camera while he was defending Rove. He looked down at his notes and then shuffled away!

[FreedomAngel82]

12. They know he's guilty!

They know he's guilty and maybe even other people too. This is awesome!

[barbaraann]

16. It sure looked like it to me.

n/t

[Stephanie]

4. No honor among thieves

[Eloriel]

19. ...and traitors! n/t

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

5. Rove knows modern politics but doesn't know aristocracy politics...

Rove may be a political genius (debatable, in my opinion) but he is only a tool. He is not, and never will be, a true member of the elite, and, as such, he is expendable.

Loyalty is something W expects from his underlings, but that oath of loyalty does not work both ways.:tinfoilhat:

[FreedomAngel82]

13. They're learning

now the hard way. Like you said, Bush is the only one who can demand loyalty. Nobody else can. Not Tony Blair, not Dick Cheney. Nobody. Not even "Bush's Brain." Bush doesn't need Rove as much anymore. I find it interesting that Bush is backing away from him. Is he guilty or just trying to cut the bad press away from him?

[lancdem]

6. Pete Yost of AP is doing a bang-up job on this

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Pickles has been given the job

[dutchdemocrat]

8. Let's hope he drowns...

Let's hope he drowns... With the whole lot. The talking points are clear there's a propoganda war in the fueling.

Let our truth be unfolded. That has to do with luck and timing.

Down Rove... Down.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Is this a hint that the Chimperor will sacrifice KKKarl

like Nixon did to his staff? And if he does, is KKKarl nevertheless so loyal that he won't rat out his boss -- or will KKKarl spill the beans about what the president knew, and when he knew it? Or, will KKKarl have an unfortunate "accident"?

Stay tuned.

[caledesi]

11. Didn't Poppy Bush fire Rove once? nt

edit: spelling

[FreedomAngel82]

15. I think

if Bush does that he could do that. These people don't go down a lone. Look at Nixon for example. I think if Rove is pressured enough and a lone and doesn't have the "support" of his "buddies" they will do whatever it takes to defend themselves. If Bush is the real person behind the Plame/Wilson leak then it'll come out sooner or later. Right now Rove is probably still protecting the top person because he hasn't been cut off. I think that's why Rove hasn't been fired yet. That and to wait out and see if anything will happen. I betcha the first time it's heard that he was the leaker they'll dump him so fast.

[Marnieworld]

17. How soon until Bush calls Karl "Mr. Rove"?

Like he did with Kenny boy if you didn't get my point.

[Goldmund]

18. Yeah -- "we exchanged a few Christmas cards"

"those photos of us together are Photoshops"