Rah Rah-ing Rove
Rah Rah-ing Rove
Apparently, one of the duties for deputy chiefs of staff in this administration is to cheerlead. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the newest White House deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, snickered, “The next time one of your smarty-pants liberal friends says to you, ‘Well, he didn’t have a mandate,’ you tell him of this delicious fact: This president got a higher percentage of the vote than any Democratic candidate for president since 1964.”
Do we really have to revisit the fact that President Bush had no mandate? If we are going back to that, then let’s also mention that President Bush enjoys the honor of being the president to have the largest number of citizens vote against him. And if we’re going to compare him to past presidents, Nixon is a prime choice; they are the “only chief executive[s] to begin [their] second term with a job rating under 60 percent.”
Fitting in well with this administration, Rove refuses to accept that you can’t will fiction into fact by mere insistence.
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Let’s also mention that the vote totals that Bush did get are owed to fradulent computer systems and countless other forms of cheating.
February 18th, 2005 at 1:11 pmThis year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) shows that life does indeed imitate art. In 1997, faux New Republic writer Stephen Glass fabricated “Spring Breakdown“, an expose of young Republicans gone wild for booze, babes and Buchanan during the conference. Now, eight years later, CPAC’s own credentialed bloggers are offering a similar (if somewhat milder) view of young conservatives gone wild.
Like the Glass piece, CPAC’s “Bloggers Corner” and blog aggregator show a fawning, post-pubescent fixation with women, some famous, most attractive and all unattainable. A small sampling from the CPAC blogosphere shows that Ann Coulter’s “heroin unchic” look has been replaced as the stuff of conservative fantasies…
For the details, see:
“Conservatives Gone Wild: Life Imitates Art at CPAC”
February 18th, 2005 at 1:22 pmRove is pathetic- he has the same smarmy, adolescent, frat-boy smugness as his boss.
It is truly sad that Rove, who apparently was the nerd nobody liked and found his calling in life when he met “the coolest guy I’d ever seen” (that would be W in his bomber jacket), has the power he has.
W is his revenge on all the rest of us.
They are both immature assholes and the fact that they abuse their power by insulting and smearing real veterans is sickening.
February 18th, 2005 at 2:48 pmRove is the worst example of the ethicless, deceitful scum that have forced an essentially fascist agenda upon America using lies, smears, distortions, religious fanatics, and corporate funding. If one wonders how dictators like Stalin, Hitler, or Saddam Hussein, obtained and retained power, they need only consider that they were well served by creatures such as Rove.
February 19th, 2005 at 4:31 pm