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Yet even more obscene insidiousness surrounding Karl Rove
Day Three on getting Roved
Karl Rove, hereafter referred to as KR, is a grand schemer, always looking ahead and stopping at nothing that will aid Republican candidates and causes. Anything is an option.
His involvement in the outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame is but another sordid example. Regardless of the repercussions to American national security, the White House cabal chose to attack an U. S. agent working on Iranian nuclear issues because her husband happened to disagree with faulty propaganda proffered by the Bush Administration. However, KR danced a little too closely to the flame of indictment on this one but was seemingly saved when his 'faulty' memory suddenly became quite clear during his fourth and final grand jury appearance.
Chalk this one up as a win for terrorism--a telling moment where the inhabitants of The White House displayed greater allegiance to themselves and their cause than to our country and our citizens. George Bush, not unexpectedly, chose to side his buddies and damn any consequences to America--that's Bush patriotism in full bloom.
It was also recently noted that the KR-ites went on tour to the General Service Administration in order to prep the GSA that government contracts should be allocated in a manner aiding Republicans House and Senate members and candidates. Here's more:
Panel Asks Rove for Information on '08 Election PresentationThen we have the quagmire of the U.S. Attorneys being fired for failing to heed White House and Republican congressional 'advice' regarding what cases to pursue.
By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 30, 2007; A05
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sought more information yesterday about a presentation by a White House aide given to political appointees at the General Services Administration that discussed targeting 20 Democratic congressional candidates in the next election.
In a letter to White House political affairs director Karl Rove, the committee chairman, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), asked about the Jan. 26 videoconference by Rove deputy J. Scott Jennings, which was directed to the chief of the GSA and as many as 40 agency officials stationed around the country.
Jennings's 28-page presentation included 2006 election results and listed the names of Democratic candidates considered beatable and Republican lawmakers thought to need help. At a hearing Wednesday about the GSA, Waxman said the presentation and follow-up remarks allegedly made by agency chief Lurita Alexis Doan may have violated the Hatch Act, a law that restricts federal agencies and employees from using their positions for political purposes...
KR's own protege, J. Timothy Griffin, was to be heading to Little Rock. An email written by Kyle Sampson, the chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, read that Griffin's appointment was "important to Harriet (Miers), Karl (Rove), etc."
In an article written by Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia L. Cooper, they cannily note among other things:
"Consider the districts they served in: Arkansas, site of Hillary Clinton’s first steps into politics as the state’s first lady; San Francisco, Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s district; Nevada, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s state; New Mexico, presidential candidate Bill Richardson’s state. North Carolina, home of former senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards, was considered but passed over by the Bush administration’s ax.Then, consider the timing of U.S. attorney Frederick A. Black's removal in Guam just as he was beginning to investigate convicted criminal Jack Abramoff. Do you think KR wasn't aware of this taking place?
Arizona, where U.S. Attorney Paul Charleton, with a particular reputation for excellence, was fired, is home to presidential candidate and sometime Bush critic John McCain. Michigan, where the prosecutor was inexplicably fired, is home to chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a staunch Iraq war opponent, Carl Levin (up for re-election in 2008). Arizona and Michigan are both important swing states, where vote suppression or trumped up charges could tip the balance in an election."
Again, there is no desire for working towards the common good, for providing government entities that actually serve the public. All has been politicized. KR wants his cadres throughout the government to play but two roles: 1) focusing on aiding the GOP and 2) rooting out the un-allegiant. In some ways, it's remindful of the way the Communist Party operated in the U.S.S.R. and Castro in Cuba.
Hillary Clinton sometimes referred to the animus expressed against her and her husband during his presidencies as part of a vast rightwing conspiracy. Vast might be overdoing it a bit although it certainly was shrill, non-stop and baseless. Rove has been busy with his personal subversion of our government, vast or no. With the Democrats in the majority in Congress, let's see if KR can continue being successful with his dodgeball maneuvering. It seems that someone is going to tire of covering up and taking hits for him and thus the perverted schemes of KR will unravel and be exposed. It looks like such is beginning to take place--not a moment too soon for KR-our domestic terrorist.
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