Rove Says He Loves Bolten "in an entirely appropriate way"

[Rose Siding]

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So the "shakeup at top levels" of the Bush Adminstration finally happened. This morning, President Bush accepted the resignation of Chief of Staff Andrew Card and appointed Josh Bolten. This replacement, friends, a shakeup does not make. What's the difference? I suppose they are hoping to send the country sprialing down the wrong track with greater efficiency now. Either way, you know Karl Rove is pleased ... he apparently has a bit of a man-crush on Josh Bolten (.pdf).

"He's soft-spoken but very clear thinking," said Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser. "I love him in an entirely appropriate way."

Aside from the obvious humor that is Karl Rove feeling he has to provide a disclaimer while expressing his admiration for Bolten, the truth is that this appointment is meaningless. And if you are a fan of absolute secrecy and business-as-usual in the White House, than Josh Bolten is your man:

"Bolten operates with two guiding principles: absolute loyalty to the boss and absolutely no attention to himself. Indeed, his penchant for secrecy befits the son of a career CIA officer. One White House colleague notes that Bolten for months had a sign on his desk declaring: 'Who else needs to know?'"

This is not the hiring of an "adult" willing to question the president and his failed policies ... this is another man willing to sit back and aid the president in his quest to stay the course.

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/03/karl_and_josh_s.php

[MadMaddie]

1. Was it necessary to say that....?

:wtf:

[Marie26]

12. Rove apparantly thought so.

That's pretty funny.

[MADem]

14. Is it the moustache?? The reports of Bolton frequenting Plato's Retreat

...during the quaintly-termed 'sexual revolution?'

What does Karl know, and when did he know it????

[mattclearing]

18. Josh Bolten, not John Bolton. n/t

[MADem]

21. Silly, INATTENTIVE me!!!

Damn, the image was such fun, too. But of course, John would not make sense in that role!! Mr. Slash-and-Burn as WH COS??? It would make a funny scenario, in a hideously disfunctional way!

[AndyA]

2. I've heard that there will be more changes in the White House

forthcoming. This is just the beginning of the line. A CNN reporter made that comment this morning on the air.

[LaurenG]

3. So what is up with that disclaimer?

:shrug:

[yellowcanine]

7. Do I really want to know? No! Eeeeewwwweeee! The mind picture is

too much for me.

[kurth]

4. He meant safe sex

[quinnox]

5. Yea, I'm sure Rove just loves the guy

because Bolten is like all the other Bush flunkies who do anything they are told.

[BOSSHOG]

6. How does a "conservative" love appropriately?

"Conservatives" have so much hate and evil in their hearts they know not of love. Bolten is merely another yes man who will do as he is told. He was a failure at budget director, therefore a hero to the likes of rove and the morons who vote robotically for republicans in this country. Worthless, constitution hating scum.

[AlCzervik]

8. giving him the reach around is he?

[deminks]

9. What ways are innapropriate, KKKarl?

Just askin. There are many appropriate ways.

[Marie26]

10. Yeah, if Rove likes him,

I don't like him. Card at least hated Rove - you've got to give him that. If Bolten is a Rove ally, it gives Rove almost total control of the White House advisers.

[tanyev]

11. BWAHAHA! Time to resurrect this quote.

Rove waxing nostalgic about the first time he met Dubya:

I asked Rove if he remembered his first impression of the Bushes. "The father was incredibly gentle," he said. "Great character. Very thoughtful. Really generous in his openness and attitude. Clearly pained by Watergate as it unrolled." His first memory of George W. Bush was more precise. "It was the day before Thanksgiving, 1973," Rove said. "Chairman Bush´s chief of staff called me and said, 'I've got to be at a meeting on the Hill, the chairman´s got to be at a meeting at the White House, the other people in the office have already gone, and the eldest son is going to be coming down from Harvard. He's going to arrive at the train station, early afternoon. He'll call over here when he gets to the train station. Meet him down in the lobby and give him the keys to the family car." I can literally remember what he was wearing: an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, bulletins, complete with the-in Texas you see it a lot-one of the back pockets will have a circle worn in the pocket from where you carry your tin of snuff, your tin of tobacco. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have."
http://www.bnfp.org/neighborhood/Lemann_Rove_NYM.htm

I think Karl has a copy of Brokeback Mountain hidden away somewhere.

[fooj]

13. Eeeeekk! Sounds like a crush!

Bleeeeeeeeeech!

[tanyev]

31. No, it's quite touching and beautiful.

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies my love



:rofl:

[Rose Siding]

30. I think Karl is taking self-affirmation lessons from the General

-the one who signs his all correspondence, "Heterosexually yours"

[BrklynLiberal]

15. Why oh why does Rove remind me so much of Porky Pig?

[deminks]

17. or Elmer Dudd

[BrklynLiberal]

22. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

[sofa king]

16. You mean like Jeff Guckert?

[katty]

19. so, he has to 'define' his love? hmmm....why?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

20. How completely bizarre.

Wouldn't it have been a lot more fun if he'd said...

"God, yes! I love him! He is absolutely scrumptious!"

These guys are so boring.

[Kurovski]

23. Appropriate? So Rove just wants to watch?

[Fleshdancer]

24. he idolizes the men he dominates.

Sounds like someone has issues. :rofl:

[Cocoa]

25. Shakeup Mountain

[Fleshdancer]

26. ROFL!!! n/t

[Avalux]

27. Very strange choice of words - what's he implying?

Is this Republican code talk? I think we all know how Rove operates and he doesn't say anything unless it's thought out and planned for maximum political effect. Have to admit I can't quite figure this one out. :D

[Rocknrule]

28. They've had to clarify stuff like this ever since Bush's "man-date"

[blindpig]

29. The Rude Pundit will have a blast with this.

Is Josh Rove's much alluded to leather slave?

edit: how can I misspell in a post this short?