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Karl Rove was born December 25, 1950, in Denver, Colorado. Although he attended the University of Utah, the University of Texas at Austin and George Mason University, he does not hold a degree. Rove reportedly dropped out of the University of Utah to become the executive director of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) from 1970-1972." He then went on to become CRNC National Chairman for 1973-1974.
Rove worked his way up the political ladder doing campaign work for a number of Texas Republicans. He earned a reputation of being a very shrewd and cunning political strategist. In 1980, he ran George H. W. Bush's unsuccessful primary campaign for president against Ronald Reagan. He founded a political consulting firm, Karl Rove & Company, in Austin, Texas in 1981. Rove helped George W. Bush win the Texas gubernatorial election in 1994. He then served as chief strategists for Bush's presidential campaign in 2000.
During Roves years in Texas, he earn a reputation for being a savage political strategist, willing to engage in various political dirty tricks. Some of the tricks associated with Rove have been detailed by journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater in their expose' book: Bush's Brain.
Austin Chronicle's Robert Bryce wrote in 2000 that "Rove has the same killer quality that Republican strategist, Lee Atwater had. He's super-confident, and a bit of a show-off. He loves to recount facts and figures regarding delegates, historical vote counts, and presidential election strategies from the past 100 years. That pedantic style, combined with lots of winning campaigns, has made him, without doubt, the most powerful political consultant in Texas. And although many politicos look to him for guidance, he denies that consultants create an image for a candidate."
One biography credits Rove with have a broad range of clients, including, "over 75 Republican U.S. Senate, Congressional and gubernatorial candidates in 24 states, as well as the Moderate Party of Sweden."
Karl Rove was also a paid consultant to Philip Morris from 1991 to 1996, earning a monthly retainer from the relationship. Although against the rules of ethics, Rove continued his relationship with Philip Morris while he was an official advisor to then Texas Governor, George W. Bush.
A February 15, 2000 article from the New York Times revealed that Rove, helped draft a 1996 push poll against then-Texas Attorney General Dan Morales in an attempt to pressure Morales out of filing a lawsuit against the major American Tobacco companies. The push poll was financed by tobacco companies. According to the article, George W. Bush, then Governor of Texas, "threatened to fire any campaign staffer found to be involved with push polls," (just like he was going to fire anyone involved with the outing of CIA agent, Valerie Plame Wilson). Bush's spokesman, Ari Fleisher, denied that Mr. Rove was involved in drafting the poll questions, saying Rove only reviewed a fifth draft of the survey. However, in a deposition given in 1997, Rove admitted he had offered suggestions about the poll's questions.
Despite this, Karl Rove was never fired.
The following is a recent excerpt from a Time Magazine article. Could this be the beginning of the end for the man that has been known both as "Bush's Brain" and as Bush's chief political "dirty tricks" strategist? Or will he continue to wear his "Teflon Coat" and move on to support other "wannabee" Republican politicians? I would personally never count out Karl Rove for continuing to help all of his political friends in any way. Even if it was illegal and unethical.
TIME MAGAZINE; April 2008:
"Recently, A federal appeals court ordered former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman released from prison on bond pending his appeal, saying he is not a flight risk and has shown his appeal will raise "substantial questions of law or fact." The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the ruling on the same day a House Judiciary Committee spokesman said the committee would ask that Siegelman be briefly released from prison in Louisiana so he can testify in its inquiry into selective prosecutions. Earlier, another Siegelman attorney, David McDonald, said his client is "emphatically" eager to appear before the House committee. "We welcome the inquiry," said McDonald. "We will continue to cooperate in every way to the extent that it does not interfere with the governor's appeal." But he said he did not expect it to affect Siegelman's legal fight negatively.
Siegelman, a Democrat, served as governor of Alabama for one term, from 1999-2003. A jury in 2006 convicted him of bribery, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud and obstruction of justice, but acquitted him of other charges, including racketeering and extortion.
A Republican lawyer now claims she was told that Karl Rove — while serving as President Bush's top political adviser — had intervened in the Justice Department's prosecution of Alabama's most prominent Democrat. Longtime Alabama Republican activist Dana Jill Simpson first made the allegation in June, 2007, but has now provided new details in a lengthy sworn statement to the House Judiciary Committee. The Committee is expected to hold public hearings on the Alabama case next week as part of its investigation of possible political interference by the Bush Administration in the activities of the Department of Justice. Simpson said in June that she heard a close associate of Rove say that the White House political adviser "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Don Siegelman, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. attorneys.
If Simpson's version of events is accurate, it would show direct political involvement by the White House in federal prosecutions — a charge leveled by Administration critics in connection with the U.S. attorney scandal that led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Still, the Judiciary Committee plans to air Simpson's testimony as part of its probe into political involvement in federal prosecutions. TIME Magazine obtained a copy of Simpson's 143-page sworn statement to the Judiciary Committee. In the statement, she recalls conversations in early 2005 with Rob Riley, Jr., son of Alabama's current Republican governor. She says Riley Jr. told her that his father and Bill Canary, the state's top Republican political operative and a longtime friend of Rove, contacted Rove in late 2004, after which he intervened with the Justice Department's Public Integrity section to push for criminal prosecution of Siegelman. Months later, in May 2005, Siegelman was indicted, setting off a chain of events that led to his imprisonment and the end of his political career. Simpson also claims Riley, Jr., named the judge who would eventually be assigned to the case, and says Riley told her the judge would "hang Don Siegelman" because of a grudge against the former governor. She says he also specified one of the exact charges that Siegelman would later face. Contacted by TIME, Riley Jr. said, "Ms. Simpson's statements have gone from being not only untrue to absurd and ridiculous."
Simpson also provided evidence aimed at refuting the younger Riley's claims, when the allegations first surfaced last June, that he barely knew Rove. This evidence includes a letter, over which a message is scrawled in what Simpson says is Riley's handwriting. The message reads, "To: Jill — I e-mailed this to Karl, (signed) Rob". The president of the company whose case Riley was handling at the time has also said: "Rob Riley mentioned Karl Rove about four or five times as someone he was getting in touch with to help settle our business in Washington."
The Judiciary Committee will examine the; timing of prosecutors' top-to-bottom review; their case with the timing of Rove's alleged intervention with the Justice Department. That's one reason Simpson was summoned before the Judiciary Committee last month to explain herself under penalty of perjury. "
Just exactly, who is Karl Rove and why does he have such a bad reputation of performing dirty tricks for the Republicans?
Wayne Madsen, a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist refers to Rove as "America's Joseph Goebbels". He also said, "As a 21-year old Young Republican in Texas, Rove not only pimped for Richard Nixon's chief political dirty tricks strategist Donald Segretti but soon caught the eye of the incoming Republican National Committee Chairman, George H. W. Bush. Rove's dirty tricks on behalf of Nixon's 1972 campaign catapulted Rove onto the national stage. Since 2001, from his Eagle's Nest in the Bush West Wing of the White House, Rove has directed a formidable political dirty tricks operation and a highly efficient disinformation mill."
Since his formative political years when he tried to paint World War II B-24 pilot and hero George McGovern as a left-wing "Peacenik" through his mid-level career as a planter of disinformation in the media on behalf of Texas and national GOP candidates to his current role as George W's. "Svengali," Rove has practiced the same style of slash and burn politics as did his Nixonian mentor Segretti. Many remember the Lincolnesque Senator Ed Muskie breaking down in tears during the 1972 campaign over Segretti-planted false stories in a New Hampshire newspaper that accused Mrs. Muskie of being a heavy smoker, drinker, and cusser and accused Muskie of uttering a slur in describing New Hampshire's French Canadian population. Segretti also forged letters on fake Muskie campaign letterhead, disrupted rallies and fundraising dinners, and spread false stories about the sex lives of Democratic candidates. Segretti's brush also smeared George McGovern, George Wallace, Shirley Chisholm, and McGovern's first vice presidential choice, Senator Tom Eagleton. As compared to Karl, Segretti did not go on to a high-level White House job. Instead, due to the Watergate Investigations, he was sentenced to six months in federal prison for distributing illegal campaign material."
In many respects, Rove has far exceeded abilities of his mentor, Donald Segretti. For years, Rove has been a tech-savvy puppet master for Bush. Take, for example, the amazing discovery of a "lost" CD-ROM in Lafayette Park across from the White House. On the CD was a PowerPoint presentation given by White House political director Ken Mehlman to Rove on the strategy for the off-year election. The slide show showed First Brother Jeb Bush being vulnerable in Florida. Jeb Bush later admitted that the disc was part of a plot cooked up by him and his brother to make it appear that he was vulnerable in order to rally an otherwise complacent GOP base in the Sunshine State.
The 2000 GOP primary was an outstanding chance for Rove to hone his skills in dirty tricks. His went after Senator John McCain, who at the time appeared to be within striking distance of George W. in South Carolina. Rove proceeded to spread false stories about McCain. McCain had supposedly fathered a black daughter out of wedlock (a cheap-shot reference to McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter); Cindy McCain's had a severe drug abuse problem. He even spread a rumor regarding McCain being a homosexual. In the spirit of Segretti, it has been agreed that Rove eventually engineered a surprise victory for George W., but at the cost of trashing an honorable man and his family. Looking back, Ed Muskie, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, George Dukakis, Al Gore, Gary Hart, Paul Tsongas, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Bob Dole, and even Ross Perot have all experienced variations of Karl Rove's slash and burn tactics.
And Rove's outright lying has continued to this very day. In 2002, Minnesota US Senator Paul Wellstone's sons asked that Vice President Dick Cheney not attend the Minneapolis memorial service for their father, mother, and sister, who had tragically died in a private plane crash. At the time, it was well know that the Democratic Wellstone family despised Dick Cheney and did not want him to attend the public service. The White House, via Karl Rove and Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer, released a false statement that the reason for the absence of Vice President Cheney was that the family didn't want Cheney's Secret Service protection to interfere with public service. Of course, the Rove and Fleischer disinformation machine forgot to take into account that two attendees, Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as other Democrats; Al Gore, Tom Daschle, Ted Kennedy, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry, came to pay their respects and many had their own Secret Service details.
Rove's fingerprints were also seen in the Iowa Senate race between Tom Harkin and GOP candidate Greg Ganske. Just before the election, a story (later found out to be false and traced to Rove's operatives) was leaked that the Harkin campaign had employed a spy within the Ganske campaign. There was no proof of course, and no one was ever actually accused.
This was just another example like the 1986 Texas gubernatorial race in which Rove's candidate Bill Clements was taking on the Democratic Governor Mark White. Just before a debate between the two candidates, Rove spun a story that his office had been bugged. Now, no proof of any bugging was ever offered or provided. But just the insinuation that White's people had carried out the bugging was reported by the media. In the election, Clements barely defeated White."
During the 2000 presidential campaign, we were once again treated to more Rove's work when an Associated Press story stated: "A woman who worked for a media company that produced ads for President George W. Bush's campaign was indicted for secretly mailing a videotape of Bush practicing for a debate to Vice President Al Gore's campaign." Yes, that videotape, along with a 120-page briefing book, just happened to turn up in Gore's headquarters just as fast as the CD-ROM turned up in Washington's Lafayette Park. An investigation as to where it came from and who the supposed indicted "woman" was produced absolutely nothing.
Aaah, classic Rove in action.
Now there are books full of other areas that Rove's "dirty tricks" have appeared, but as this is just a short feature article, there isn't the time or space to list them. Besides, they all just become boring and more disgusting, the more you read. If you do a lot of Googling, you can be entertained by Rove's antics for days on end.
Karl Rove is now among the many whom have left the White House. Many of them, including Karl, left under some level of a black cloud such as counselor Dan Bartlett, budget director Rob Portman, chief White House attorney Harriet Miers, political director Sara Taylor, deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch and Meghan O'Sullivan, another deputy national security adviser. Also, we must include; White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Education Secretary Rod Paige, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans.
And of course, we can't forget Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. However, for some reason, Donald Rumsfeld still has a desk at the Pentagon...?
There are no Democrats bemoaning the loss of Karl Rove from the Bush White House. But I think Mr. Rove will continue to be involved with less than appropriate political activities as long as he is still able to breath. Unfortunately, he is anything but gone from American politics.
Karl Rove was born December 25, 1950, in Denver, Colorado. Although he attended the University of Utah, the University of Texas at Austin and George Mason University, he does not hold a degree. Rove reportedly dropped out of the University of Utah to become the executive director of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) from 1970-1972." He then went on to become CRNC National Chairman for 1973-1974.
Rove worked his way up the political ladder doing campaign work for a number of Texas Republicans. He earned a reputation of being a very shrewd and cunning political strategist. In 1980, he ran George H. W. Bush's unsuccessful primary campaign for president against Ronald Reagan. He founded a political consulting firm, Karl Rove & Company, in Austin, Texas in 1981. Rove helped George W. Bush win the Texas gubernatorial election in 1994. He then served as chief strategists for Bush's presidential campaign in 2000.
During Roves years in Texas, he earn a reputation for being a savage political strategist, willing to engage in various political dirty tricks. Some of the tricks associated with Rove have been detailed by journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater in their expose' book: Bush's Brain.
Austin Chronicle's Robert Bryce wrote in 2000 that "Rove has the same killer quality that Republican strategist, Lee Atwater had. He's super-confident, and a bit of a show-off. He loves to recount facts and figures regarding delegates, historical vote counts, and presidential election strategies from the past 100 years. That pedantic style, combined with lots of winning campaigns, has made him, without doubt, the most powerful political consultant in Texas. And although many politicos look to him for guidance, he denies that consultants create an image for a candidate."
One biography credits Rove with have a broad range of clients, including, "over 75 Republican U.S. Senate, Congressional and gubernatorial candidates in 24 states, as well as the Moderate Party of Sweden."
Karl Rove was also a paid consultant to Philip Morris from 1991 to 1996, earning a monthly retainer from the relationship. Although against the rules of ethics, Rove continued his relationship with Philip Morris while he was an official advisor to then Texas Governor, George W. Bush.
A February 15, 2000 article from the New York Times revealed that Rove, helped draft a 1996 push poll against then-Texas Attorney General Dan Morales in an attempt to pressure Morales out of filing a lawsuit against the major American Tobacco companies. The push poll was financed by tobacco companies. According to the article, George W. Bush, then Governor of Texas, "threatened to fire any campaign staffer found to be involved with push polls," (just like he was going to fire anyone involved with the outing of CIA agent, Valerie Plame Wilson). Bush's spokesman, Ari Fleisher, denied that Mr. Rove was involved in drafting the poll questions, saying Rove only reviewed a fifth draft of the survey. However, in a deposition given in 1997, Rove admitted he had offered suggestions about the poll's questions.
Despite this, Karl Rove was never fired.
The following is a recent excerpt from a Time Magazine article. Could this be the beginning of the end for the man that has been known both as "Bush's Brain" and as Bush's chief political "dirty tricks" strategist? Or will he continue to wear his "Teflon Coat" and move on to support other "wannabee" Republican politicians? I would personally never count out Karl Rove for continuing to help all of his political friends in any way. Even if it was illegal and unethical.
TIME MAGAZINE; April 2008:
"Recently, A federal appeals court ordered former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman released from prison on bond pending his appeal, saying he is not a flight risk and has shown his appeal will raise "substantial questions of law or fact." The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the ruling on the same day a House Judiciary Committee spokesman said the committee would ask that Siegelman be briefly released from prison in Louisiana so he can testify in its inquiry into selective prosecutions. Earlier, another Siegelman attorney, David McDonald, said his client is "emphatically" eager to appear before the House committee. "We welcome the inquiry," said McDonald. "We will continue to cooperate in every way to the extent that it does not interfere with the governor's appeal." But he said he did not expect it to affect Siegelman's legal fight negatively.
Siegelman, a Democrat, served as governor of Alabama for one term, from 1999-2003. A jury in 2006 convicted him of bribery, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud and obstruction of justice, but acquitted him of other charges, including racketeering and extortion.
A Republican lawyer now claims she was told that Karl Rove — while serving as President Bush's top political adviser — had intervened in the Justice Department's prosecution of Alabama's most prominent Democrat. Longtime Alabama Republican activist Dana Jill Simpson first made the allegation in June, 2007, but has now provided new details in a lengthy sworn statement to the House Judiciary Committee. The Committee is expected to hold public hearings on the Alabama case next week as part of its investigation of possible political interference by the Bush Administration in the activities of the Department of Justice. Simpson said in June that she heard a close associate of Rove say that the White House political adviser "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Don Siegelman, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. attorneys.
If Simpson's version of events is accurate, it would show direct political involvement by the White House in federal prosecutions — a charge leveled by Administration critics in connection with the U.S. attorney scandal that led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Still, the Judiciary Committee plans to air Simpson's testimony as part of its probe into political involvement in federal prosecutions. TIME Magazine obtained a copy of Simpson's 143-page sworn statement to the Judiciary Committee. In the statement, she recalls conversations in early 2005 with Rob Riley, Jr., son of Alabama's current Republican governor. She says Riley Jr. told her that his father and Bill Canary, the state's top Republican political operative and a longtime friend of Rove, contacted Rove in late 2004, after which he intervened with the Justice Department's Public Integrity section to push for criminal prosecution of Siegelman. Months later, in May 2005, Siegelman was indicted, setting off a chain of events that led to his imprisonment and the end of his political career. Simpson also claims Riley, Jr., named the judge who would eventually be assigned to the case, and says Riley told her the judge would "hang Don Siegelman" because of a grudge against the former governor. She says he also specified one of the exact charges that Siegelman would later face. Contacted by TIME, Riley Jr. said, "Ms. Simpson's statements have gone from being not only untrue to absurd and ridiculous."
Simpson also provided evidence aimed at refuting the younger Riley's claims, when the allegations first surfaced last June, that he barely knew Rove. This evidence includes a letter, over which a message is scrawled in what Simpson says is Riley's handwriting. The message reads, "To: Jill — I e-mailed this to Karl, (signed) Rob". The president of the company whose case Riley was handling at the time has also said: "Rob Riley mentioned Karl Rove about four or five times as someone he was getting in touch with to help settle our business in Washington."
The Judiciary Committee will examine the; timing of prosecutors' top-to-bottom review; their case with the timing of Rove's alleged intervention with the Justice Department. That's one reason Simpson was summoned before the Judiciary Committee last month to explain herself under penalty of perjury. "
Just exactly, who is Karl Rove and why does he have such a bad reputation of performing dirty tricks for the Republicans?
Wayne Madsen, a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist refers to Rove as "America's Joseph Goebbels". He also said, "As a 21-year old Young Republican in Texas, Rove not only pimped for Richard Nixon's chief political dirty tricks strategist Donald Segretti but soon caught the eye of the incoming Republican National Committee Chairman, George H. W. Bush. Rove's dirty tricks on behalf of Nixon's 1972 campaign catapulted Rove onto the national stage. Since 2001, from his Eagle's Nest in the Bush West Wing of the White House, Rove has directed a formidable political dirty tricks operation and a highly efficient disinformation mill."
Since his formative political years when he tried to paint World War II B-24 pilot and hero George McGovern as a left-wing "Peacenik" through his mid-level career as a planter of disinformation in the media on behalf of Texas and national GOP candidates to his current role as George W's. "Svengali," Rove has practiced the same style of slash and burn politics as did his Nixonian mentor Segretti. Many remember the Lincolnesque Senator Ed Muskie breaking down in tears during the 1972 campaign over Segretti-planted false stories in a New Hampshire newspaper that accused Mrs. Muskie of being a heavy smoker, drinker, and cusser and accused Muskie of uttering a slur in describing New Hampshire's French Canadian population. Segretti also forged letters on fake Muskie campaign letterhead, disrupted rallies and fundraising dinners, and spread false stories about the sex lives of Democratic candidates. Segretti's brush also smeared George McGovern, George Wallace, Shirley Chisholm, and McGovern's first vice presidential choice, Senator Tom Eagleton. As compared to Karl, Segretti did not go on to a high-level White House job. Instead, due to the Watergate Investigations, he was sentenced to six months in federal prison for distributing illegal campaign material."
In many respects, Rove has far exceeded abilities of his mentor, Donald Segretti. For years, Rove has been a tech-savvy puppet master for Bush. Take, for example, the amazing discovery of a "lost" CD-ROM in Lafayette Park across from the White House. On the CD was a PowerPoint presentation given by White House political director Ken Mehlman to Rove on the strategy for the off-year election. The slide show showed First Brother Jeb Bush being vulnerable in Florida. Jeb Bush later admitted that the disc was part of a plot cooked up by him and his brother to make it appear that he was vulnerable in order to rally an otherwise complacent GOP base in the Sunshine State.
The 2000 GOP primary was an outstanding chance for Rove to hone his skills in dirty tricks. His went after Senator John McCain, who at the time appeared to be within striking distance of George W. in South Carolina. Rove proceeded to spread false stories about McCain. McCain had supposedly fathered a black daughter out of wedlock (a cheap-shot reference to McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter); Cindy McCain's had a severe drug abuse problem. He even spread a rumor regarding McCain being a homosexual. In the spirit of Segretti, it has been agreed that Rove eventually engineered a surprise victory for George W., but at the cost of trashing an honorable man and his family. Looking back, Ed Muskie, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, George Dukakis, Al Gore, Gary Hart, Paul Tsongas, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Bob Dole, and even Ross Perot have all experienced variations of Karl Rove's slash and burn tactics.
And Rove's outright lying has continued to this very day. In 2002, Minnesota US Senator Paul Wellstone's sons asked that Vice President Dick Cheney not attend the Minneapolis memorial service for their father, mother, and sister, who had tragically died in a private plane crash. At the time, it was well know that the Democratic Wellstone family despised Dick Cheney and did not want him to attend the public service. The White House, via Karl Rove and Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer, released a false statement that the reason for the absence of Vice President Cheney was that the family didn't want Cheney's Secret Service protection to interfere with public service. Of course, the Rove and Fleischer disinformation machine forgot to take into account that two attendees, Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as other Democrats; Al Gore, Tom Daschle, Ted Kennedy, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry, came to pay their respects and many had their own Secret Service details.
Rove's fingerprints were also seen in the Iowa Senate race between Tom Harkin and GOP candidate Greg Ganske. Just before the election, a story (later found out to be false and traced to Rove's operatives) was leaked that the Harkin campaign had employed a spy within the Ganske campaign. There was no proof of course, and no one was ever actually accused.
This was just another example like the 1986 Texas gubernatorial race in which Rove's candidate Bill Clements was taking on the Democratic Governor Mark White. Just before a debate between the two candidates, Rove spun a story that his office had been bugged. Now, no proof of any bugging was ever offered or provided. But just the insinuation that White's people had carried out the bugging was reported by the media. In the election, Clements barely defeated White."
During the 2000 presidential campaign, we were once again treated to more Rove's work when an Associated Press story stated: "A woman who worked for a media company that produced ads for President George W. Bush's campaign was indicted for secretly mailing a videotape of Bush practicing for a debate to Vice President Al Gore's campaign." Yes, that videotape, along with a 120-page briefing book, just happened to turn up in Gore's headquarters just as fast as the CD-ROM turned up in Washington's Lafayette Park. An investigation as to where it came from and who the supposed indicted "woman" was produced absolutely nothing.
Aaah, classic Rove in action.
Now there are books full of other areas that Rove's "dirty tricks" have appeared, but as this is just a short feature article, there isn't the time or space to list them. Besides, they all just become boring and more disgusting, the more you read. If you do a lot of Googling, you can be entertained by Rove's antics for days on end.
Karl Rove is now among the many whom have left the White House. Many of them, including Karl, left under some level of a black cloud such as counselor Dan Bartlett, budget director Rob Portman, chief White House attorney Harriet Miers, political director Sara Taylor, deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch and Meghan O'Sullivan, another deputy national security adviser. Also, we must include; White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Education Secretary Rod Paige, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans.
And of course, we can't forget Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. However, for some reason, Donald Rumsfeld still has a desk at the Pentagon...?
There are no Democrats bemoaning the loss of Karl Rove from the Bush White House. But I think Mr. Rove will continue to be involved with less than appropriate political activities as long as he is still able to breath. Unfortunately, he is anything but gone from American politics.
