(2007-08-13) — Karl Rove, the chief adviser to George Bush since 1993, in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, said he would resign from the Bush administration effective August 31, to spend more time with family and to head up the presidential campaign of Democrat front runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY.
Mr. Rove called the move “a cold calculated decision to remain in charge of the U.S. government indefinitely.”
“I crave power,” Mr. Rove told the Journal, “and I can’t get my fix working for a lame duck president. I’ve been informally advising future President Clinton for about a year. I have a lot in common with Hillary — mostly notably the ice water that flows through our veins and the unbridled lust to rule the nation with an iron fist.”
President Bush plans to make a statement about the Rove resignation, as soon as he can find someone to tell him what to say.
17 responses so far ↓
1 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 13, 2007 at 7:25 am
Power? Heck, who are the liberals going to blame for everything under the sun?
Oh whoa, oh whoa, life is going to get rough. Shoot, the Clinton’s always had someone to blame and most of them did time in jail
Does Karl Rove want to go to jail, or what?
2 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 13, 2007 at 7:59 am
Hello. Anyone home?
3 Zim // Aug 13, 2007 at 8:16 am
Scott, I think you should apply for the opening at the White House now that camp is almost over for the summer. I bet you could write some interesting Presidential speeches! :>)
4 gafisher // Aug 13, 2007 at 10:16 am
There was a moment of tension while Bill and Karl discussed who would be the “Alpha Male” in the campaign, but Rove finally agreed with Bill’s view and conceded the role belongs to Senator Clinton.
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6 Darthmeister // Aug 13, 2007 at 1:02 pm
AP - Washington D.C.
Karl Rove “frog-marched” himself out of the White House out of a pang of guilt for framing Dick Armitage in the Valerie Plame outing.
Dick Armitage admitted he was quite unaware of having been framed since he thought he revealed Valerie Plame’s ultra-top secret identity as a matter of a free will offering to Robert Novak. But if he had been unwittingly framed by the evil genius Rove then “obviously the Rovian Mind Control Rays made me forget.”
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 13, 2007 at 2:39 pm
After much study and inquiring I have decided that post number 1 was in errors. I meant Oh woe, oh woe-not oh whoa, oh whoa.
Sorry Daniel Webster.
8 Beerme // Aug 13, 2007 at 4:47 pm
MsRW,
You also should be careful about using the words “shoot” and “the Clintons” in the same sentence, since their enemies tend to live short lives…
9 EXT // Aug 13, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I could easily imagine Rove heading the campaign to get the Democrap nomination for Hillary.
She has been declared by several recently elected senators (Democrat) as being the most serious threat against them retaining “their” seats.
Consensus among her own potty (errrr….party) is that her November 2008 candidacy is certain to bring out the Republican vote, even if the GOP is offering Patricia Nixon as the nominee!
Worst-case, Hillary might be elected president for life but with an overwhelming Republican majority in both houses of Congress. Instant and perpetual gridlock! No new taxes! Ongoing threats of impeachment which will never be made good upon-just kept as a drumbeat to prevent anything other than defense.
Go for it Karl!
Oh….now that Murdoch owns The WSJ, how long before the bidding starts for The Noo Yawk Daily Worker?
10 camojack // Aug 13, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Rove Quits White House to Run Hillary Campaign
Into the ground, I hope!
11 da Bunny // Aug 13, 2007 at 7:12 pm
“President Bush plans to make a statement about the Rove resignation, as soon as he can find someone to tell him what to say.”
Rove’s skills in marionetting GWB will be sorely missed. Who will be able to step in and take over the strings and work the mouth? Who will be the “brains” behind the “puppet-President?” Is this another evil Rovian plot…a coup, perhaps?
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14 Darthmeister // Aug 14, 2007 at 7:21 am
On second thought, obviously Karl Rove is an evil genius.
15 onlineanalyst // Aug 14, 2007 at 10:56 am
The ever-classless (unless he’s playing it for political gain) and always well-coiffed John Edwards responded to the Rove resignation with a bitterly nasty “Good-bye, good riddance”. Talk about being divisive!
John, we all wish you the same… in spades… when you haul your pathetic (but, oh so pretty) arse back to the “other America” you call home. Please be sure to keep your Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on your vehicle in order to alert those who may have missed your brief moment in the sun on the first go-round.
16 Ed Driscoll.com // Aug 15, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Rove Announces Future Plans…
True, it was a short retirement, but really, who amongst us didn’t see this one coming from miles away?……
17 Ivo Vegter // Aug 16, 2007 at 10:13 am
And here I was hoping the Dems would nominate her, only so she could say something like “I voted for the war before I voted against it” and join the ranks of wannabes like Gore and Kerry.
This, however means she’ll win. On the upside, with the puppet-master in charge, it means she’ll be a scaly lizard neo-con whom the Daily Kos will call Queen Hillary I.
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