Who is paying Karl Rove's salary now? The RNC?

[grasswire]

If Karl Rove's primary work now is to manage the Congressional elections, shouldn't the RNC be providing him with an office and be paying his salary?

Isn't it highly irregular for him to have a White House office? Should he have a security clearance still? Should taxpayers be supporting this partisan work that is unrelated to White House matters?

Please jot a note to your favorite White House press corps member and ask for an explanation of Rove's status.

[medeak]

1. good point

think RNC is paying for his legal fund?

[Ecumenist]

2. I hope so...

Cause one thing's for sure; I wouldn't spend a thin red dime to help him buy a breath of air and I would spit to out him out if he caught fire in front of me.

[RedTail Wolf]

3. Pretty sure we are paying him with tax dollars.

I didn't hear he was dismissed from the White House staff at all. If I'm wrong , testify and let me in on your source Bothers and Sisters. KR is a Deputy Chief of Staff to the President and that did not change today.

[grasswire]

4. well if Al Gore got in trouble for making some...

....political phone calls from the WH, why can Rove have an office there at the expense of taxpayers?

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Because the Hatch Act

only applies to DEMS.

[0007]

11. We're paying for the creep!

[flordehinojos]

5. rules, propriety, the right thing, boundaries and i do not mean borders

but those too i think, none of that mean anything to the bastard bushes who own the world and do what they want because they can...and since they rule the world through poppy's halliburton money, and karl rove's job now would be to make sure none of the bushes' pegs falls out of place, shouldn't it be halliburton who also pays for karl rove's salary. heck, they could just sit him down in texas right next to the puppeteer: poppy bush. it would be more comfortable for them to pull the strings (those of the bushit boy's and all the others whose strings they are pulling and intend to pull).

[northofdenali]

6. He remains a "deputy chief of staff"

so unless there's a major outcry, I would imagine he'll stay on the taxpayer's payroll.

[unblock]

7. you and i both. he's still in the white house; he remains with TWO titles

senior advisor and chief policy aide.
he lost his third title, deputy chief of staff, but he only had that for a year or so.

nothing has really changed.

[onenote]

9. the taxpayer, just as taxpayers paid Begala's salary under Clinton

Its nothing new to have a political advisor on the White House staff. That's the job Paul Begala had during the Clinton administration. So attacking Rove using this line of thinking is a waste of time.

onenote

[grasswire]

12. was Begala's task the Congressional elections?

No.

[Dr Fate]

14. I dont think making Republicans defend a lying criminal is a waste of time

I think bringing this up along with other details would reflect poorly on the GOP, not Clinton.

[Minnesota Libra]

10. You think idiot boy will help pay Rove out of his pocket through ....

.....donations to the RNC? Not a chance!!! You and I are paying that:puke: out of our pockets. Even if he gets switched over officially I'd still want to see the paper trail before I'd believe the RNC was taking money from campaigns to pay Rove.

[alfredo]

13. I just called my congressman and asked who is paying him

for this partisan job.

[beaconess]

15. This really isn't unusual. Every White House has a taxpayer supported

political operation.

Clinton had the same set-up, including an "Office of Political Affairs," peopled by his political operatives. It's assumed that the political/governance roles of the president cannot be distinguished in many instances since the political climate so completely impacts his administration's ability to promote his policies.

It may be wrong, but it's not unprecedented.