Sunday, July 17, 2005
"But in fact everything is political—and everyone is fair game."
In an open thread at Eschaton, Nora says,
My favorite passage from the Newsweek article (the first link on this thread) was this:
Of course they didn't think they'd done anything wrong! They never think they've done anything wrong!
And in a sort of bitterly funny way, the idea of fundraising by reminding people of Bush's flight of fear on 9/11 would make no sense at all in a rational world, which obviously this isn't.
The article she's talking about is this one: Rove at War
He rose using tactics his foes are turning against him. But never bet against Karl Rove. By Howard Fineman.
and that's why Rove needs to be brought down! If he isn't, I can see worse things happening. I've read/heard several thoughts about this admin getting us into a war where we would have to suspend elections. I don't think that would happen, but who knows? There is a possibility.
My favorite passage from the Newsweek article (the first link on this thread) was this:
It's unlikely that any White House officials considered that they were doing anything illegal in going after Joe Wilson. Indeed, the line between national security and politics had long since been all but erased by the Bush administration. In the months after 9/11, the Republican National Committee, a part of Rove's empire, had sent out a fund-raising letter that showed the president aboard Air Force One in the hours after the attack.
Of course they didn't think they'd done anything wrong! They never think they've done anything wrong!
And in a sort of bitterly funny way, the idea of fundraising by reminding people of Bush's flight of fear on 9/11 would make no sense at all in a rational world, which obviously this isn't.
The article she's talking about is this one: Rove at War
He rose using tactics his foes are turning against him. But never bet against Karl Rove. By Howard Fineman.
July 25 issue - Karl Rove is a hunter. His favorite quarry in Texas is quail; in Washington, it's foes of George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rove was focused intently, with a touch of anger, on his prey...
...In the World According to Karl Rove, you take the offensive, and stay there. You create a narrative that glosses over complex, mitigating facts to divide the world into friends and enemies, light and darkness, good and bad, Bush versus Saddam....
and that's why Rove needs to be brought down! If he isn't, I can see worse things happening. I've read/heard several thoughts about this admin getting us into a war where we would have to suspend elections. I don't think that would happen, but who knows? There is a possibility.
