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The children borne of the Bush-Rove coupling
They thought their legacy would be one of Republican domination for decades. Yes, George Bush and Karl Rove, the Amoral -- indifferent to the question of right or wrong -- Twins, instead have cast their lot with the uber-selfish philosophical strain of 'all that matters is their winning or losing.'
There's nothing this pair wouldn't do or haven't done, all with their mind's eye solely trained on gaining electoral advantage. Think about it: their handiwork includes starting an unnecessary war, one begun on lies and subterfuge and forego extinguishing Al-Queda, introducing kidnapping and torture as new United States weapons of choice, imploding the Justice Department with appointments and nominations -- robots -- fixed to give their all to solely to George Bush, destroying the United States military with endless postings, making the position of Attorney General of the United States into that of a mindless handpuppet, poisoning the position of the Surgeon General, muzzling whistleblowers of all sorts -- all the while pledging fealty to a Jesus apparently known only to this pair.
Rove is the Strategist and Bush the Water Carrier -- each is incomplete without the other.
But why is anyone surprised? When has Karl Rove ever considered morality, let alone legality, when he's politicking, which is 24/7? Anyone and everything is fair game -- the point is to win, period. If someone would slime an Alabama judge with a pedophile taint or stage the despositing of a listening device in his own office during a Texas gubernatorial race -- as Rove did -- then it's readily apparent that there is no bar he won't limbo under in pursuit of victory.
Karl Rove is an absolute political operative and George Bush his more than willing, actually absolutely grateful conduit. Rove's one and only goal is putting his candidate in office. Whether that takes blurring any heretofore lines of demarcation, whether it takes frightening the American public with beneficial-to-his-candidate timed but faux announcements of domestic terrorism threats, whether it takes despoiling this country through division over differences serious or not, whether it takes the removal of any consideration of personal or professional integrity, whether it takes...well, you get the idea.
George Bush needed someone like Rove and gladly made a Faustian bargain because Bush so desperately needed some position that would equate him with respectability. It was a pairing made in hell.
Dare it be written but this pair are simply internal terrorists, alongside Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, David Addington, Stephen Hadley and the rest of the ilk. Combined, they have done more to destroy our democracy than anyone else in 200+ years.
All for a 27% approval rating -- karma is a bitch!
Here's an editorial from the generally mild Sacramento Bee, with a great, great ending:
Editorial: Politicizing governmentGo here for the remainder, remember it has a wonderful conclusion.
E-mails just one example of lines crossed
Sacramento Bee
June 21, 2007
Congressional oversight hearings have revealed that White House senior political adviser Karl Rove and White House staffers working for him make liberal use of political e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign. This is in addition to their official White House e-mail accounts.
Here's why it matters. If Rove & Co. are spending a majority of their time engaging in political activities, they have no business being on the public payroll. Their salaries, like political consultants working for previous presidents, should be paid by the national party organization or the president's campaign committee.
But if they're using political e-mail accounts to do official government business instead of their official White House e-mail accounts, then they're in violation of the Presidential Records Act. They're evading their obligation to keep a record of administration decisions and actions.
The situation reveals, once again, how the Bush administration has blurred the line between official government business and political campaign activity to the point that the two have become indistinguishable. Every White House coordinates policy activities and political activities. But the Bush administration has gone off the scale in building a massive White House structure to ensure that partisan politics drives policy.
John Dilulio, a political scientist and policy scholar who was an assistant to the president during George W. Bush's first term, points to the wholesale politicizing of the Bush White House. He told journalist Ron Suskind: "There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you've got is everything and I mean everything being run by the political arm."
Dilulio called this "the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."
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