BREAKING: Bush Dodges Rove Questions
BREAKING: Bush Dodges Rove Questions
Here’s the full text of Bush’s answer to two questions regarding Plamegate.
Q: Thank you sir? Can I ask you if you have spoken with your deputy chief of staff Karl Rove about the Valerie Plame matter and do you think he acted improperly in talking about it with reporters?
Bush: Mark, I have instructed every member of my staff to fully cooperate in this investigation. I also will not prejudge the investigation based on media reports. We’re in the midst of an ongoing investigation. And I will be more than happy to comment further once the investigation is completed. Elaine.
Q: Mr. President, on that front, has Mr. Rove come to you and discussed — when did he discuss the fact that he had conversations with reporters about Valerie Plame? And based on that, do you feel as though it was appropriate for your spokesman to say definitively that Karl Rove had nothing to do with the Valerie Plame matter?
Bush: Elaine, we’re in the midst of an ongoing investigation, and this is a serious investigation. And it is very important for people not to prejudge the investigation based on media reports. And again, I will be more than happy to comment on this matter once it is complete.
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Just like Karl told him to say — once a chickenshit, always a chickenshit.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:37 amHe sounds EXACTLY like his father did during Iran-Contra… “errrr, i can not comment during an ongoing investigation…”
July 13th, 2005 at 11:39 amPlace back of thief’s head against curb, commence pounding.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:44 am[...] Bush finally took some questions about Karl Rove. He refused to answer, saying “it’s important not to prejudge an investigation.” [...]
July 13th, 2005 at 11:50 amWatching BushCo is like watching the mob. You know you’re never going to get a straight answer.
Truth was supposed to be one of those oh so important “christian” values, isn’t it? Where’s the “christianity” in what these guys are doing?
Once a crook, always a crook. These guys need to be exposed and jailed. The sooner the better.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:55 amI am too young to recall how Nixon’s administration was – particularly in the second term -but I do get the distingt impression that we are watching a repeat…
Now if only one could Tivo history and edit out all the pointless commercials.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:59 amThe Monster is smiling!!!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-13-bush-rove_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
Check out the USA Today report with the photo of Rove smiling as Bush brushes off questions!!
Bush says he’ll withhold judgment on Rove — for now
The White House said two years ago that Rove wasn’t involved in the leak. Bush said last year he would fire anyone found to have leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, the wife of former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson. Her name was given to reporters and published in 2003 after Wilson publicly criticized the Bush administration’s use of intelligence leading up to the Iraq war.
A grand jury is investigating because leaking the name of a covert CIA officer could be a crime.
Bush refused Wednesday to directly answer questions about whether he had spoken to Rove about his discussion with Cooper.
“I have instructed every member of my staff to fully cooperate with this investigation,” Bush said. Rove sat stoically behind Bush during the questions about his involvement.
July 13th, 2005 at 12:29 pmIs it just me or does Bush talk like he thinks the rest of us are stupid?
July 13th, 2005 at 12:32 pmIt’s not just you ex, it’s true.
July 13th, 2005 at 12:37 pmRepeat after me Junior, Newwww kleeee urrr.
>does Bush talk like he thinks the rest of us are stupid?
Bush is stupid.
AND, he thinks the rest of us are even more stupid.
Boy, I can hardly wait until American gets an active, professional press corps.
When will one of these guys ask the iconic question:
July 13th, 2005 at 12:40 pm“You have done enough; have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? “
ex-hippie,
Because the evangalists and hillbillies fall for his outrageous lies Bushie thinks the rest of the country is stupid.
That is is downfall, he underestimated the intelligent life.
votetoimpeach.org
July 13th, 2005 at 12:41 pmJohnS, it’s not a repeat of watergate until Bush uses the word ‘poppycock’ to dismiss something as being out of hand, he has used the word absurd so he’s getting close.
July 13th, 2005 at 1:06 pmFor once the press are asking tough questions, which leads me to wonder if someone unlocked the cabinet and gave them back their testicles. Problem is, Bush and McClellan are playing the old game of repeat the same statement 5,000 times until the press quits asking. Let’s pray the reporters won’t let up and that the public will demand real answers.
July 13th, 2005 at 1:27 pm#12
Thank you for pointing that out. I will defer to the memory of someone who seems to know.
But please don’t mischaracterize my statement. I am not insinuating that this is the same as Watergate, but merely that the style of both administrations seem to have striking similarities (as John Dean pointed out at length in his book ‘Worse than Watergate’).
July 13th, 2005 at 1:38 pm[...] Could last year…can’t this year. Think Progress has the transcript. [...]
July 13th, 2005 at 1:40 pmThe Anniston Star’s Leilah Rampa did this
July 13th, 2005 at 1:59 pmhttp://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2005/as-cartoons-0713-lrampa-5g12v1617.htm
Karl Rove Cartoon
July 13th, 2005 at 2:01 pmHere is the raw URL, I guess I didn’t do code to your requirements.
Just another case of Bush doing what comes naturally – playing dumb.
July 13th, 2005 at 2:17 pm#13 it looks like the press is taking upon itself to ask the White House about Rove and by doing so they are showing their true colors. They have to because:
1. Democrats in congress know this is a hopeless cause and that Rove is innocent.
2. Democrats are so scared of Rove that they aren’t asking the tough questions.
Which is it?
July 13th, 2005 at 2:33 pmScared of Rove, thats laughable!
Fitzgerald and Clark are taking the entire administration down.
Deal with it nazi lover.
July 13th, 2005 at 2:59 pmIf Dem’s aren’t asking the tough questions, Bush should have no trouble answering the easy ones: Will he keep his word and fire those invovled in the leak?
July 13th, 2005 at 3:17 pmWhy doesn’t somebody point out to El Jeffe Bush that, if he hadn’t noticed, that Rove’s Lawyer is blabbing away about the investigation. Last I heard Rove is a member of the Bush administration. Didn’t he get the memo that the Leader says they are supposed to respect the preference of the Fitzgerald’s office and not talk about the case? What gives here???????? Bunch of two-faced bastards. They’ll talk to the press when its convenient and serves their ends but not when it comes to being held accountable.
July 13th, 2005 at 3:30 pm#19 “it looks like the press is taking upon itself to ask the White House about Rove”
You mean like, why would the press do such a thing? Aren’t they supposed to just mindlessly repeat press releases?
No wonder you love Fox News, you don’t even know what a free press is SUPPOSED to do…
“taking upon itself”… sad indeed.
July 13th, 2005 at 3:30 pmRegarding #8. Republican strategists — Rove, Luntz, etc — understand very, very well that tens of millions of voters in this country simply do not have the mental skill set to carry a conversation beyond the first layer of discussion. That’s why name calling, talking points, asininely simplistic reasoning is all you hear from right wingers. I mean, when is the last time you heard or read a right winger walk you through an issue point by point in a logical, thoughtful manner? If the day ever comes when 90 % of the people who vote red realize that they are being used by a republican machine that doesn’t give a rat’s ass about their real-life needs, watch out.
July 13th, 2005 at 3:56 pm#19 The press isn’t showing their true colors, they are doing their job, asking questions that need to be asked.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:17 pmThe answer to 1 is: Democrats in congress know this is a hopeless cause because the Republicans have the White House, Senate and House and the investigation will most likely go nowhere.
The answer to # 2 is of course no they are not scared of Rove, they are leery of him. Better to have the ammo in the gun before going in the dark basement alone. We will see what happens in the days to come. Also look here:
http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/003147.html
G’Day All:
RE: #6: The fact is that this administration is far more corrupt than the Nixon administration. If the Downing Street Minutes can be taken at face value, then this administration intentionally misled the Congress along with each and every American into an unwarranted pre-emptive war with a nation that posed no threat to our national security. In a word, this war is illegitimate; it was also ill-conceived.
As Deep Throat said thirty-some years ago: “Follow the money.� Ask yourself: Who is profiting (read that: making mega-bucks) from this war? Halliburton and KBR come to mind.
Conservative estimates of non-combatant Iraqi civilian deaths since March 2003 are approaching 100 thousand – old men, women and children. There is a tremendous amount of blood on the hands of each and every insider of this administration resulting from their illegitimate, ill-conceived, unwarranted pre-emptive invasion and subsequent occupation of a sovereign nation that posed no threat to our national security or our way of life.
If morally bankrupt neo-cons (i.e. #19: Always Right – and others) wish to support this administration and its illegitimate (ill-conceived, unwarranted pre-emptive) war, let’m go for it. If they believe in this bastard war, so be it; it’s their grave they’re digging.
It is so true that you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all the time. Frankly, I’m of the opinion that this administration has sold more than enough of its snake oil; it’s time for them to close shop and move on, or as Ross Perot would say, “It’s time to clean out the barn.�
-Sky
July 13th, 2005 at 9:24 pm