(2006-10-30) — Presidential adviser Karl Rove, the so-called ‘architect’ of Republican electoral victories in 2002 and 2004, today offered to allow Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, to keep her House minority leader post after the Republican triumph at the polls next week.
Mr. Rove has mystified pollsters and pundits in recent days with his confident statements that Democrats will not take back the Congress, despite their virtually unstoppable momentum in the New York Times and on CNN.
“I’m going to grant Nancy Pelosi amnesty,” Mr. Rove said, “despite what she and her followers have said during this campaign. I am Rove, the great and powerful, but the beneficent Rove has every intention of granting her forthcoming request to remain minority leader.”
64 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:38 am
God Bless America!
JamesonLewis3rd
2 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:40 am
3 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:48 am
He’s a better man than I am, that is, if I was a man. So maybe he is a better woman than I am, that is, if Rove was a woman.
Ah heck, he is a better person than I am-that is, to give Pelosi anything other than a size nine on the backside.
4 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:50 am
Not going to do it…. Wouldn’t be prudent at this time….
5 MargeinMI // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:52 am
I think he ought to give her a paid-for vacation to Gitmo.
Now a quick OT (early in the thread, I know), I found this fascinating!
http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf
Thanks Dr. Sanity!
6 Scott Ott // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:01 am
Rove Offers Pelosi Amnesty After Elections…
by Scott Ott(2006-10-30) — Presidential adviser Karl Rove, the so-called ‘architect’ of Republican electoral victories in 2002 and 2004, today offered to allow Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, to keep her House minority leader post after the Republican…..
7 camojack // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:02 am
Personally, I wouldn’t give her the skin off’n a grape…
8 Hawkeye // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:25 am
I think “hot-head” Nancy should get a “time-out” and go sit in the corner with Kim Jong Ill.
9 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:30 am
What in the world are all those links below Scott’s article. Jessh, I am afraid to click on one in fear of what may happen-or is it just my computer?
10 Smile … it’s election humor week « Fish-Wrap.net // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:34 am
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11 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:38 am
Camojack,
Demoncrats: If life is a bowl of cherries why am I always in the pits?
Not saying the Republicans might not lose the house, but I think Rove does have a much firmer grasp on what’s going on. The media and the DemDonks have blinded themselves with their slavish devotion to polls. With Republicans consistently underrepresented in these polls (and usually the margins in the polls are directly paralleled by how much Republicans are underrepresented), no wonder it shows the Donks winning big … maybe they will but I still doubt it until I see it for myself.
Remember, these elections ARE LOCAL. Sure there are national overtones, but our U.S. representative Republican candidate, Tim Johnson, is so far ahead of this hotdog Donk, he has probably spent less than $5000 on his campaign. Guess where the rest of the money is going, yep, right into those close races. The Though is this: Sure the Republicans suck, but Democrats suck even bigger because they sure as heck haven’t a plan for Iraq except cut-and-run or appeasement and you know what, we haven’t been attacked in five years. Economy is good, unemployment is down, why should I vote for a Bush-hater who will probably plunge this country into a divisive impeachment process.”
12 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:40 am
The way Rove evokes abject terror and obsequious adulation simultaneously is comical.
It would be hilarious if, when the Republican Party retains its majority 8 days from now, Pelosi was replaced as Minority Leader by, oh, say, Obamaramadamadingdong.
JamesonLewis3rd
13 CalGirl // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:44 am
I sure hope Rove is right!
14 gafisher // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:46 am
No competent architect would permit a clearly substandard structure to remain in the midst of a beautiful new construction. Hey hey, ho ho, Comrade Pelosi’s got to go!
15 onlineanalyst // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:49 am
But what will Rove offer to the other half of that American Gothic couple, Harry Reid? The Iconoclast blog takes a shot at the shrewd land shark.
“Pyongyang, North Korea) — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says that criticism of his land-for-uranium deal with North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il is being perpetrated by the Bush White House as a last-minute electoral tactic.
“‘There is absolutely no state or federal law on the books that specifically prohibits a sitting United States senator from buying federal lands at steeply discounted rates and then signing over the mineral rights to an Asian dictator in exchange for a $150 million contribution to a political action committee’s offshore bank account in the Cayman Islands,’ said a clearly exasperated Senator Reid during a press conference yesterday in the Kim Jong-Il Auditorium of the Kim Jong-Il Hall of the People in Pyongyang’s Kim Jong-Il People’s Government Complex.
“When asked by journalists about reports that uranium extracted from Reid’s Nevada land holdings is being used in North Korea’s atomic weapons program, the Senator said that he has been assured by Kim Jong-Il that all fissionable materials will be used for ‘peaceful purposes,’ such as controlling population growth in South Korea and making ‘really, really big’ fireworks for the Kim Jong-Il Dear Leader Day celebrations next month.”
William Grim for Iconoclast
16 Just Ranting // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:04 am
“…NOW BEGONE, before someone drops a house on you!” - Rove
17 Bill's Bites // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:07 am
Rove Offers Pelosi Amnesty After Elections …
Rove Offers Pelosi Amnesty After Elections (2006-10-30) — Presidential adviser Karl Rove, the so-called ‘architect’ of Republican electoral victories in 2002 and 2004, today offered to allow Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, to keep her House minority lead…
18 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:17 am
Has anyone heard a single DemDonk apologize for their scurrillous attacks and false witness against Karl Rove concerning his non-role in the Plamegate kerfuffle? I thought not. Despicable Donks.
19 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:17 am
…Pelosi ate my post.
20 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:21 am
Now that’s funny, onlineanalyst. Iconoclast nailed it. Reid is dirty as all get out and the Donks look the other way. If it had been Tom DeLay or Newt Gingrich … well, you get the picture.
21 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:21 am
… Pelosi ate my post again.
22 onlineanalyst // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:37 am
If Nancy Pelosi can say the remark below with a straight face, perhaps she needs to be relegated in her sunset years back to Romper Room®. Then again, her side of the aisle already appears to be that.
“The gavel of the speaker of the House is in the hands of special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America’s children.”
James Lileks expands on the absurdity of a Pelosi-led House:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/15881975.htm
23 red satellites // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:45 am
Good morning Scrapplers!
Another fine day here in Los Angeles….in the land of plenty…..plenty of illegals.
24 onlineanalyst // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:50 am
In a bid to be multi-culti welcoming to illegals, the Dems have offered to change Election Day to the Day of the Dead. After all votes from the grave are what Nancy’s party does best: http://www.haloscan.com/tb/drsanity/116220991716789606
25 Maggie // Oct 30, 2006 at 11:39 am
Camojack, re#7
If you gave PUlosi the skins then you would have a new organization “the Grapes of Wrath”. Wahahahahhahahaha.
(apologizing in advance) :>)
26 GnuCarSmell // Oct 30, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Rove, in his perfect benevolence, also promises to return Pelosi’s eyelids — currently hidden in a lockbox somewhere near Crawford, Texas.
27 wildhowd // Oct 30, 2006 at 12:02 pm
What the Democrats need to do is put forward a candidate with the following credentials:
A deceased, mexican national, gay, alcoholic, war hero who has had a sex change operation, believes in early withdrawal and will be released from prison just prior to November 2008.
28 RedPepper // Oct 30, 2006 at 12:14 pm
#22 ola: ” … and now it will be in the hands of America’s children.”
To quote Kurt Vonnegut (from his 1963 novel, Cat’s Cradle ):
Yes yes! Babies full of rabies!
29 Maggie // Oct 30, 2006 at 12:19 pm
GnuCarSmell re #26…….STOP IT! ;>)
I am still laughing about your comment on the ‘fence thread ‘ about the “concept wire cutters flying off the shelves in Mexico”.
BTW….three NC college students were killed by a drunk driver(an illegal Mexican).
30 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Sorry, Wildhowd #27, but Murtha is not a Mexican national.
31 RedPepper // Oct 30, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Oh dear.
I think this article was meant to be reassuring.
A U.S. company that makes touch-screen voting machines said it requested a federal investigation to dispel what it called baseless rumors of ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Somehow, I don’t feel reassured …
32 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 30, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Okay-I need to know, does anybody have or did have these strange links after Scott’s blog. This morning there were very large letters after his blog now there are funny little creatures.
I am afraid to hit on any of them in fear of an attacking virus.
They say things like raw sugar, tailrink etc
33 puzzletop // Oct 30, 2006 at 1:23 pm
We use paper ballots in New Mexico. We are so advanced in foiling any cheating that is done in states that have electricity. Gee who would have thunk it? Paper ballots stop cheaters.
Yeah…Right.
puzzletop
34 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 30, 2006 at 1:41 pm
sigh. I give up
35 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 1:57 pm
RE: #32~~
Ms RightWing, Ink~~
Those are links to what are known as “social bookmarks” which seem to be all the rage these days. It’s sort of like putting this Web Site on everybody’s favorites list.
Like a communal favorites list.
Or something like that.
JamesonLewis3rd
36 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Has anyone seen Nancy Pelosi? Is her picture on a milk carton? Isn’t it interesting how Donks like Pelosi, Murtha, Reid, and Kennedy are keeping a real low profile along with the Hollyweird crowd right before the elections? Shows ya’ how the Donks know that they can’t sell their agenda (or themselves) to the nation with a straight face so they have to hide.
Also, anyone hearing talk from the Donks about how Bush needs to be impeached? Where’s the media on this? Ohhh, that’s right, for the Demoncrats to win no news is good news.
37 RedPepper // Oct 30, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Sigh. There’s no cure for stupid. On the very same day that The Boston Globe reports declining circulation figures for almost every newspaper except the New York Post , the Post endorses you-know-who(!) for re-election .
I can’t stand it …
38 RedPepper // Oct 30, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Does one of you good people have a Buck™ knife I can borrow? I wanna go behead myself …
39 da Bunny // Oct 30, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Posts 27 and 30…HYSTERICAL!!
Those Rovian mind-control rays are in the air…watch for those wearing tinfoil hats at your local polling places!
40 upnorthlurkin // Oct 30, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Red, we have one but it’s awfully sharp…not terrorist-dull and rusty…
Does Hitlary even have an opponent?!
41 Just Ranting // Oct 30, 2006 at 3:55 pm
We celebrated a milestone birthday for my sister yesterday. I am a conservative, but something went wrong in my sister’s genetics as she is quite the moonbat liberal. We took her to lunch yesterday, and took two cars to get everyone there. (Please don’t tell AlGoremeister!) My brother an I decided to have some fun with her. She got back to the house first. When we got back later we put a bumper sticker on her car that read, “I’d rather be hunting with Rick Santorum” She’s been driving around with it for about a day now before she realized it was there. She knew immediately who was behind it. I just got a call from her and she was not very happy. She said when she gets a gun I should hope I’m not within range. Geez, nice talk from a pacifist. I mean its not like it read, “I’d rather be hunting with Dick Cheney”. Some people are so touchy.
42 myword // Oct 30, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Does anyone know where I can find the link to the Victor Davis Hanson article Rush referenced today re: the Iraqi violence compared to the State of CA violence. I googled it, but can’t find it.
43 wildhowd // Oct 30, 2006 at 4:46 pm
took a bit to find it but read Victor Davis Hanson article at http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson041206.html
44 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Harold Ford Jr. of Tennesee is the poster child for the duplicity of the DemDonk party in trying to capture House and Senate seats by hook or by crook.
Here’s this Democrat Ford portraying himself as a “Jesus loving, gun supporter” and running well to the right of the Democratic Party. And he isn’t the only one. In virtually every close race there are Democrat “conservatives” who are running neck and neck with their Republican counterparts. Isn’t it amazing how the DemDonks have to run trojan horse “conservative” candidates in hopes of picking up seats they couldn’t win with a true liberal. If the Donks do win the House it isn’t because they ran on any liberal agenda or actually have a better mousetrap than duping uninformed voters with their “conservative” candidates.
More proof that liberals can’t win when they are honest about their liberal agenda … you know, bigger than big government, more taxes, more gun control, cut-and-run in Iraq and Afghanistan, and impeach Bush.
45 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Just Ranting,
At one of those online video sites I ran across a clip of a pretty foul-mouthed comedian ripping on militant Muslims and calling them, and I quote, “Towel heads”. Apparently two femi-nazis in the crowd took exception and voiced their anger at his jokes. And being the comedian he was he started ripping on them for some yuks. He began telling feminist jokes. Before you know the one lefty feminist got on the stage and took a few swings at the comedian. Of course the guy was surprised but he kept on laughing and hurling insults. Then the second femi-nazi got on stage and he challenged her to “go ahead, assault me, take a swing you hypocrite.”
And while the two women were milling around on stage he starting railing about their hypocrisy about being supposed people of peace who are against violence and respecting other people’s opinions, and then invoked his constitutional right to free speech. I told them if they didn’t like his routine they could darn well leave the club.
The crowd started nervously cheering and as the two women turned to leave the guy said this (I suppose I should be offended - I paraphrase), “What is it with these people, I can hurl insults at Christian fundamentalists and they have never come on my stage to take a swing at me, but then I insult Muslim fundamentalists who cut people’s heads off then these two liberal kooks come up here and take a swing at me. What’s with that?”
He sits down and regales the audience with some more nervous humor for a minute or so and then says, “Maybe if I had threatened to behead them they would give me some respect. My sister use to hit and torment me, my mother beat me, girlfriends have slapped me and I’ve never raised my hands to a woman - EVER - and these two women come up here to assault me! There’s a double-standard.”
No kidding.
46 Just Ranting // Oct 30, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Darth,
My sister really isn’t that bad. We’ve gotten into a few arguments over philosphical differences, but we are comfortable enough with each other to know that we are each entitled to our own points of view. We love each other and she loves my daughter as if she were her own kid. We are diametricly opposed on almost all issues except for family loyalty. And despite our differences we genuinely emjoy getting together. She respects my faith in my home and that allows us to keep the communication lines open. I never would have pulled the bumper sticker stunt if I thought she couldn’t take the joke. She really is a great sport.
47 onlineanalyst // Oct 30, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Scoping out link to link to link (or should I say: “Connect the dots’?) for “Name that Moonbat”: http://politics.wizbangblog.com/2006/10/29/name-that-moonbat.php
48 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 6:48 pm
I posted a comment (#30) about Murtha, and he apparently redeployed my username to Okinawa. I don’t post often, but I visit here daily, and I want to stay in the battle.
49 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 6:56 pm
I still show up as “anonymous,” even after asking for a new password. Apparently, JamesonLewis is having the same problem. Anyone have a solution?
In the meantime, I’ll lock my doors and windows if I see Murtha entering my driveway.
Ghoti
50 RedPepper // Oct 30, 2006 at 7:02 pm
#40 upnorthlurkin: Sharp suits me fine …
” … and I laid me down with a will!” et cetera …
Yes, the Hildebeast has an opponent. Here is his website, FWIW. The polls up here in the Vampire State are so lopsided the place threatens to capsize and sink in Long Island Sound. Ooooo, they’ll regret what they’re about to do …
51 Anonymous // Oct 30, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Pelosi says Rumsfeld lost those weapons in Iraq.
JamesonLewis3rd
52 RedPepper // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:21 pm
JL3: Pelosi is so clueless! Didn’t she ever hear about Milo Minderbinder?
53 The Pelosi Agenda. Part 5 « Nuke’s news & views // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:21 pm
[…] Rove offers Pelosi amnesty after election (scrappleface) […]
54 myword // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:25 pm
Wildhowd #43
That’s the article I was looking for. Thanks.
Good article.
55 Godfrey // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:47 pm
I can’t wait until the election is over so we can start focusing on what really matters…the recounts.
56 Darthmeister // Oct 30, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Just Ranting, believe me when I say I know what you’re talking about. Both my younger brother and dad are big time southern Democrats. They HATE Republicans but, for example, my dad has more in common with Republicans than he does Democrats. He’s morally conservative, a big Second Amendment supporter, respects the American military, thinks homosexuals should keep it in the closet and quit defining themselves by their perversion, intensely dislikes commies and most socialists, thinks the ACLU are a bunch of liberal kooks interested in only protecting criminals, etc. Yet he remains a Democrat! Being a retired union man he believes Democrats are for the little guy and thinks I’m lying when I say that the Democrat Party runs on big money donors more than the Republican Party and in fact 8 of the top 10 “fat cats” in the Senate are Democrats. I think its called compartmentalized cognitive dissonance.
57 everthink // Oct 30, 2006 at 11:03 pm
Darthanddumb,
Re: 36
“Also, anyone hearing talk from the Donks about how Bush needs to be impeached? Where’s the media on this? Ohhh, that’s right, for the Demoncrats to win no news is good news.” Comment by Darthmeister - October 30, 2006 @ 2:07 pm
Everthink the media may have a left wing bias?
OK, I’ll say it; just as sure as Bush planned to attack Iraq before he was elected, those dimdonks, lib, commie, pinkos plan to impeach the worst president in U. S. history? Quick call Drudge; you can quote me on that!
We’ll be moving you all from death row to death watch now that you only have a week left.
Any last words?
ET
58 everthink // Oct 30, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Can you say Madam Speaker?
ET
59 Anonymous // Oct 31, 2006 at 1:15 am
This article gives some insight into the ACLU and demonstrates yet another reason to pray for a Republican majority in the Senate.
60 Godfrey // Oct 31, 2006 at 3:23 am
I disagree with the premise of that article, JL3: regardless of how you feel about religion in the public sphere, the act in question would have a permanent chilling effect on ALL challenges to perceived establishment clause abuses.
Sounds like something the Kremlin would have passed.
61 onlineanalyst // Oct 31, 2006 at 6:48 am
Thomas Sowell today expresses my concern about about the seriousness of this election’s outcome:
“Contrary to what you might think from the way the media cover politics, elections are not about the careers of politicians but about the fate of the country. That fate is definitely on the line now with a nuclear Iran and a nuclear North Korea looming over our children’s future.
“The time is long overdue to get serious about the caliber of people to whom power and responsibility are to be entrusted. That is especially important if and when the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives after this election.
“They can be vague about their agenda but they can’t hide the facts about who will stand to wield power if they take over the House.
“Everyone seems to be talking about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as a new Speaker of the House after this year’s elections. But is anyone interested in what she has actually done in the past, as a guide to what to expect from her in a powerful position that also puts her next in line to become President of the United States after the Vice President?
“On immigration, Congresswoman Pelosi voted against tightening border security.”
To which I might add for PA voters, anyone who dreams that Bob Casey, Jr. is an improvement over Rick Santorum both for the nation and the state is simply dreaming. Santorum’s record stands head and shoulders above his opponent’s hiding-in-the-shadows vagueness. Little Bobby is a tool for a party bent on regaining power at the expense of the security of the American people.
62 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 31, 2006 at 8:54 am
Good Morning. I am not quite sure of the time on the clock , but my body says it is time to go back to bed.
I sure wish my cat would get on non-DST
63 Pros and Cons » Is the looming election really no big deal? It’s Halloween, get alarmed! It’s seasonally and situationally appropriate. // Oct 31, 2006 at 3:32 pm
[…] To those who care about corruption, the Bush White House actually prosecutes it, in politics and in business, even if the target is GOP Rep. Curt Weldon. When Clinton was elected, Birmingham’s Richard Arrington and a host of other Democrat politicians around the coutnry were spared court as Clinton fired every single Republican Federal District Attorney in the country, without even giving them a chance to close ongoing cases. We had bouncers who could not get security clearances going through the FBI files of Republican members of Congress and billing records magically being found years after being repeatedly subpoenaed. People at least as partisan would be elevated to leadership positions in the House and Senate if we lose. Being alarmed is rational under such cirtcumstances. November 7 looms and it does not look good (or does it?). […]
64 bystander // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:30 pm
“Being a retired union man he believes Democrats are for the little guy and thinks I’m lying when I say that the Democrat Party runs on big money donors more than the Republican Party”
You expect us to believe such bulldung ?
I suppose Eagan of EMC fame is a p-pot donor ? He funneled 2 grand to many select people in and out of the company to donate to Bush !
Quite illegal but I don’t see any Bush men pursuing such illegal tactics. But then that tactic is not limited to Republicans either.
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