Did Rove orchestrate the U.S. attorney firings?
New Mexico Republican Party Chairman Allen Weh said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to White House officials and asked that Iglesias be removed because he was not indicting Democrats. “Weh said he followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.” Weh said Rove told him: “He’s gone.” His account calls into question the White House’s involvement in the recent firings of eight U.S. attorneys.
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Very likely it was cheney, then rove on to gonzoles…Bull shit bush is to stupid he just does what his butt buddies tell him to do….Blessings
March 10th, 2007 at 8:31 pmUm, yes.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:32 pmRove certainly could have been behind this. After all he did summon Hurricane Katrina to attack New Orleans and he did tell Osama to hit the towers.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:33 pmThe Think Regress Rejects are getting lamer everyday. You know if you blame Rove for everything it begins to lose it’s effect.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:35 pmRove was behind the bombing of the USS Cole and he assasinated President Kennedy and possibly President Garfield.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:37 pmBull shit bush is to stupid he just does what his butt buddies tell him to do….Blessings
Comment by Sharon — March 10, 2007 @ 8:31 pm
Are you insinuating that Bush is gay? You should be banned from this site frorever. Coulter was tarred and feathered here for calling Edwards gay. Homophobes like Sharon should be forced to apolagize for her hateful remark.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:40 pmHey troops! you are following orders from a former male cheerleader.
Rove is a germ. Not a mastermind.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:41 pmRove was behind the bombing of the USS Cole and he assasinated President Kennedy and possibly President Garfield.
Comment by mandolin
Oh yeah, your people insist it was all Bill Clinton.
Boring.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:42 pmI had nothing to do with the Garfield assasination!
March 10th, 2007 at 8:44 pmThe Think Regress Rejects are getting lamer everyday. You know if you blame Rove for everything it begins to lose it’s(SIC) effect.
You (Sharon) should be banned from this site frorever. Coulter was tarred and feathered here for calling Edwards gay. Homophobes like Sharon should be forced to apolagize(SIC) for her hateful remark.
Comments by mandolin
And your attempts at jokes are getting lamer by the minute. Rove has been long known for his dirty tricks, and he admits to having been inspired by the (Tricky Dicky) Nixon administration. Maybe you ought to be banned from this site, troll-boy.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:45 pmClinton was cunning but Rove is omnipotent. I think Rove is clearly more capable of controlling the universe.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:45 pmLora,
March 10th, 2007 at 8:48 pmI’m on your side now. Karl Rove is single handedly responsible for every major planetary catastrophe. Even volcanoes.
Rove told Payson it was still cool to wear a sweater over a collared shirt.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:51 pmI don’t do volcano’s! Now mercs and killers, those I like.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:52 pmTurdBlossom! I told you to stay off these boards! We have our people watching and they want you to stay out of it! Now scram!
March 10th, 2007 at 8:54 pmHey troops! you are following orders from a former male cheerleader.
Rove is a germ. Not a mastermind.
Comment by old hack — March 10, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
We’ve got another homophobe. Boot him off.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:54 pmMandolins are such beautiful instriment’s, but their sound is so twaangie….Nope I am not a homophobe but would guess that the happy bunch of closeted theives in the white house who hired Gannon to viset regularly are hypocrits and gay…..I don’t care if they are gay only that they are lier’s, thieves and war monger’s…Play another tune please and try tightening up you string’s before you do…Thank’s for not playing up to our standerd’s….LOL..
March 10th, 2007 at 8:54 pmMandolins are such beautiful instriment’s, but their sound is so twaangie
March 10th, 2007 at 8:58 pmFirst off that was hilarious. Secondly you haven’t heard a good one. Check out the ‘27 Loar mandos. They are wonderful.
Huh, I wasn’t aware mandolins could be made from old fruit crates…
March 10th, 2007 at 9:00 pmRove: “He’s gone…”
March 10th, 2007 at 9:07 pmCongress: “He’s baaack…”
Mandolin is performing an entertaining parody of himself erecting straw man arguments.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:11 pmComment by mandolin — March 10, 2007
Poor mandolin all its string ares broken and there’s some disgusting noise coming out of the hole in its face.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:12 pmYUK
When the change to the law was inserted by Senator Spector (or his staff) last year, that change had THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY written all over it.
Does Rove know anyone in that group? Yeah, he sure does.
And who — who has not been seen since November last year — suddenly emerged to defend the firings? • Karl Rove
He’s a traitor, and all the trolls making jokes about Garfield are complicit in treason. Must make you lot real proud to subvert the Constitution, but then again you would only be American if you were NOT on your knees for your favorite dictator. You wave the flag and shout Hallelujah, clutching your tax break and your fake teeth in your hand, BECAUSE you have broken faith with the Greatest Generation, to become the Worst. Congratulations.
Every hero this country has ever produced spits on you.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:12 pmWow! , Great post Paul….Blessings
March 10th, 2007 at 9:19 pmI saw Weh on local television the other night. His speech was pressured, he flailed is hands wildly and appeared a tad overconfident. Those are qualities I really like and expect in a fascist bastard.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:22 pmRove- implicated? Of course he’s ALWAYS inplicated in anything that has to do with anything over this hateful crime scene called, the Bush presidency.
Comment by Paul in LA — March 10, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
Bravo, Bravo
Standing ovation here for Paul in LA
March 10th, 2007 at 9:24 pmMandolin is performing an entertaining parody of himself erecting straw man arguments.
Comment by VerbalKint
Sorry but I don’t think Mandolin can get anything erect.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:26 pmmandolin:
I told you the other day thay you should change your name from a musical instrument to some kind of tool.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:31 pmHow about a tool that unstops toilets.
Surely, Congress sees the importance of castrating Rove and rendering him useless and impotent for the remainder of his miserable life. There must be a number of crimes he has participated in and they only need one to make it stick.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:37 pmWell said, Paul in LA.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:41 pm“Did Rove orchestrate…” God, I hope so.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pmBush should have fired Rove like he said he was going to do after Rove outed Valerie Plame. But Bush needs someone around to do all the dirty deeds, so Rove is irreplaceable to him.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:53 pmRove is the architect of the current collapse of the Republican Party. Thank you, Karl!
March 10th, 2007 at 9:58 pmWhy are we not impeaching George W. Bush?
March 10th, 2007 at 10:05 pmA more fitting name for Mandolin would be Broken Record. In fact, that moniker would fit most of the regular trolls here.
March 10th, 2007 at 10:07 pmMe thinks it’s time for congress to bring Rover in for some fun under oath questioning. Maybe he can clear up any “misunderstandings” regarding these justice officials firings.
Should be fun. I’ll be stocking up on popcorn.
March 10th, 2007 at 10:09 pmRove certainly could have been behind this. After all he did summon Hurricane Katrina to attack New Orleans and he did tell Osama to hit the towers.
Comment by mandolin
Hep TP how about an ignore button ()
March 10th, 2007 at 10:19 pmCrazy Eddie,
mandolin has the same “heavy bed” problem as Patrick. :P
March 10th, 2007 at 10:29 pmCrazy Eddie,
mandolin has the same “heavy bed†problem as Patrick. :P
Comment by Zooey
Apparently. I guess when one never leaves the bed while watching BD TV that is bound to happen.
March 10th, 2007 at 10:40 pmI am really burnt out on this politically biased crap and the poorly written stage act that is on display at the whitehouse.
March 10th, 2007 at 10:43 pmCrazy Eddie,
BD TV?
I always picture them shivering under the covers. “You can’t see me!”
March 10th, 2007 at 10:45 pmI am really burnt out on this politically biased crap and the poorly written stage act that is on display at the whitehouse.
Comment by Crazy Eddie
I don’t blame you. Gonna take a break from TP?
March 10th, 2007 at 10:46 pm1. Waxman is calling Fitzpatrick to testify what he has discovered about the TREASONOUS exposure of a CIA spy by Bush and Cheney.
2. Bush sux Saudi OIL cokc, like the OIL WHOREBAG that he is.
3. Osama is STILL FREE.
4. Bush is a coxucker punk TRAITOR to the USA.
“mandolin”’s TRAITOR hero!!!
God Bless America, REAL Americans (non-Bush-azzhole-lickers) and the WORLD!
March 10th, 2007 at 10:48 pmWHO? Karl Miss Piggy Rove? HE’S GONE…VERY SOON NOW!!!!! HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!!!!! HAH!!!!!
March 10th, 2007 at 11:14 pmAnd I’ll bet that Mandolin once predicted that Rove had nothing to do with outing Valarie Plame.
March 10th, 2007 at 11:24 pmMandolin’s idiocy is almost painful to watch: he has to ignore that the source of the story is Allen Weh, New Mexico’s Republican Party chairman.
Weh admits to talking to one of Rove’s aides, and asking for the removal of David Iglesias. He also admits to following-up with Rove himself.
By Weh’s own admission, Rove was involved in the removal of Iglesias from his post as New Mexico’s US attorney.
March 10th, 2007 at 11:40 pmFor the latest news, hearings, legal filings and other essential documents on the politically motivated prosecutor firings, see:
March 10th, 2007 at 11:48 pm“The Bush DOJ U.S. Attorney Scandal Documents.”
Defenders of Karl Rove believe he is unfairly judged. They either don’t read, or can’t think, because if they could put two and two together, they could see that his historical behavior, his mentor, his methods of operation, and his actions today are typical for him.
March 10th, 2007 at 11:51 pmHe then boasts of his successes against all his enemies. He is shrewd, calculating, and gets a perverse thrill from helping his boy-king rise to the top.
Mandolin you are such a bootlicking sniveler. The left does not have to accuse Rove and the Bush Admin of supernatural evil, they do quite well on their own with republican lack of integrity, greed, incompetence and stupidity.
Rove ain’t Satan, he is just an arrogant f**k.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:11 amI am really burnt out on this politically biased crap and the poorly written stage act that is on display at the whitehouse.
Comment by Crazy Eddie
I don’t blame you. Gonna take a break from TP?
Comment by Zooey
I dunno Zooey. With this latest suicide act (debunked in minutes) it’s not TPs fault. I guess i am amazed at the levels of stupidity and mindlessness people will stoop to accomplish a goal (that has no goal) If this is how many Americans think, mediwiaely, we are in sore shape as a country and it no wonder were not very liked as a whole.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:15 amKarl Rove is behind everything dirty in the Bush Regime.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:18 amCrazy Eddie,
I think the people of the world can tolerate our stupidity, it’s our government’s policies that make them hate us.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:22 amRove got beat up by a little democrat girl as kid and has never gotten over his sobering experience and ridicule
March 11th, 2007 at 12:22 amCrazy Eddie,
I think the people of the world can tolerate our stupidity, it’s our government’s policies that make them hate us.
Comment by Zooey
Great. Jes F’n Great.
Well, TTYL, GN Zooey.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:30 amDid Rove orchestrate the U.S. attorney firings?
Why not? He’s done it before:
Bush removal ended Guam investigation
US attorney’s demotion halted probe of lobbyist
By Walter F. Roche Jr., Los Angeles Times | August 8, 2005
WASHINGTON — A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.
The previously undisclosed Guam inquiry is separate from a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia that is investigating allegations that Abramoff bilked Indian tribes out of millions of dollars.
…His replacement, Leonardo Rapadas, was confirmed in May 2003 without any debate. Rapadas had been recommended for the job by the Guam Republican Party. Fred Radewagen, a lobbyist who had been under contract to the Gutierrez administration, said he carried that recommendation to top Bush aide Karl Rove in early 2003.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:33 amGreat. Jes F’n Great.
Well, TTYL, GN Zooey.
Comment by Crazy Eddie
I’m sorry. Goodnight, CE.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:36 am#55 chimpeach
One after another, they just keep on coming don’t they?
Do you think our news media will ever return to covering news again? Come to think of it, they probably will begin in 2009 reporting every parking ticket plastered on a Democrat’s car and tell the readers they are doing investigative journalism.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:52 am“Do you think our news media will ever return to covering news again?” — Marie
We will eventually reestablish the Fairness Doctrine. Rep. Slaughter introduced such a bill in 2005, and Rep. Kucinich has also mentioned a desire to work to that end. We can and will RE-REGULATE the news media.
On FOX, a comedy show would be one that delivered the news.
March 11th, 2007 at 1:47 am“Very likely it was cheney, then rove on to gonzoles…Bull shit bush is to stupid he just does what his butt buddies tell him to do….Blessings
Comment by Sharon — March 10, 2007 @ 8:31 pm”
And I’m sure with your 8th grade education you can back this stupid statement up?
March 11th, 2007 at 1:54 am“Um, yes.
Comment by Zooey — March 10, 2007 @ 8:32 pm”
Um yes? I didn’t expect much more from you!
March 11th, 2007 at 1:55 amKarl Rove is behind everything dirty in the Bush Regime.
Comment by Jay Randal
Isn’t Cheney behind some dirty things, too, or is he just a Halliburton warmonger?
March 11th, 2007 at 1:59 am“And your attempts at jokes are getting lamer by the minute. Rove has been long known for his dirty tricks, and he admits to having been inspired by the (Tricky Dicky) Nixon administration. Maybe you ought to be banned from this site, troll-boy.
Comment by Lora — March 10, 2007 @ 8:45 pm”
Lora where have you been? You zooie and rachel are my three favorite dummies! Tell us some facts about Rove? Facts!
March 11th, 2007 at 1:59 amLora where have you been? You zooie and rachel are my three favorite dummies! Tell us some facts about Rove? Facts!
Comment by michael
I had the flu, mikey. Look up facts abot Rove on your own. You always expect others to do research for you. As for being one of your favorite “dummies,” I just love being told that by a guy whose spelling is at below third grade level. Now that you’re on this thread, I’m signing off; you’re too stupid to waste my time on.
March 11th, 2007 at 3:10 am“I had the flu, mikey. Look up facts abot Rove on your own. You always expect others to do research for you. As for being one of your favorite “dummies,†I just love being told that by a guy whose spelling is at below third grade level. Now that you’re on this thread, I’m signing off; you’re too stupid to waste my time on.
Comment by Lora — March 11, 2007 @ 2:10 am
Really? Did your public school teach you to spell “about” “abot”? I guess it’s plain to see who is stupid!
March 11th, 2007 at 3:35 am#64 Mikey, you did not attack someone for spelling something wrong, did you? K, my eye is on you. Any mistake and you are toast. Cheers.
March 11th, 2007 at 3:49 ammikey,
March 11th, 2007 at 3:54 amYou’re too stupid to see that “abot” for “about” was a stuck key. On the other hand, you have asked one poster here in the past whether he was “excepted(SIC) in the fourth grade yet”–a mistake that is clearly not a typo or stuck key, among your various other almost classic misspellings.
As for my public high school, it has produced a former Secretary of State, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and Newbery Medal recipient, among other honorees. I myself have been a Fulbright Scholar in Asian languages. Can you say that your private school has done as well? And, as I have pointed out previously, you are hardly a good advertisement for the so-called advantages of private education. (BTW, at the college and graduate school level, I, in fact, had a private Ivy League education, which neo-CONs like yourself tend to denounce as “elitist.”)
Now, goodbye; I am recovering from　a high temperature and flu; and life is too short to answer every single question from a guy too lazy to use google or wikipedia to dig up some facts!
LOOVE the trolls defenses of Karl Rove.
If you feel so strongly about his innocence, I’m sure you’ll be happy to testify AT HIS TRIAL. Save it for the jury.
Rove and the rest are guilty of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, and a host of crimes thereafter.
Ten minutes at a legal and fair trail, and all you would hear from where Rove was sitting is a GIANT SUCKING SOUND and his empty chair.
And you lot know it. Enjoy the indictments, and watch out for falling would-be dictators (don’t bump into their SHOES).
March 11th, 2007 at 3:59 amSorry to hear about you illness, Lora. Nice smackdown on the lowly troll, Mikey, sick or not.
March 11th, 2007 at 3:38 amLora where have you been? You zooie and rachel are my three favorite dummies! Tell us some facts about Rove? Facts!
Comment by michael
It’s spelled Zooey. Btw Michael, you should capitalize the first letter in your name (makes you seem more intelligent)
For one fact, Michael, Rove was fired by none other than Bush Sr. for leaking to the press. (can you say Plame?)
Another Rovian antic, Michael, was using a false identity (like a terrorist might do) and then stealing campaign letterheads (not a very christian thing to do) and Rove then printed fake campaign rally fliers. Dixon still won. (heckuva job Karl)
I could go on about Roves dirty (and not very Christian like activites)
No to mention he lost in 2006 with his ‘numbers’.
Why anyone would admire such a person is beyond me. None of these values I have posted are conservative. Besides Rove lives in a type of Orwellia where there is no reality. And you, Michael, seem to believe in that non-reality and reinforce and perhaps even relish them. (lies basicallly)
Can you spell Palpatine Michael?
March 11th, 2007 at 6:13 am#68 JParlk,
March 11th, 2007 at 7:56 amThank you for your sentiments on both counts. My temperature is back to normal now. Trying to get Mikey to think instead of robotically repeating neo-CON talking points and asking silly questions is probably tougher than getting rid of a very nasty flu.
Mandolin/broken record needs to get a hobby.
March 11th, 2007 at 8:02 am“He’s gone.â€
Our country is being run by a porcine publicist!
March 11th, 2007 at 8:02 amHas anyone in New Mexico taken a poll to find out what the remorse rate is on re-electing Heather Wilson? I haven’t been able to find anything online.
March 11th, 2007 at 8:41 amI guess it doesn’t really matter who in the administration is personally behind the firings.
Rove certainly supports them as witnessed by his recent comments attempting to justify them as no worse than what Clinton did. [ See if you are a Bush or Rove supporter, then it was really Clinton that sunk the Luisitania, etal.]
THe importance of hte story is that, once again, there evidence of unethical behavior and misuse of power in a scandal involving the unscrupulous Bush administration.
it’s Just another nail in the wall that proves (1) cronyism/favoritism, (2) misuse of power, (3) ineptitude, (4) corruption, (5) hypocrisy, and (6) incompetence of this adminsitration - All together they comprise a very tenable argument for indictment and impeachment all around.
This past week we have learned (i.e. confirmed) that (1) South America’s friendliness to the USA is much worse than when Bush came into office, (2) when the administration says it supports the troops, it means it supports its own war strategy, but not supporting funds for sufficient armor for the troops or , more importantly, quality recovery care for wounded soldiers , (3) the FBI did inappropriately use the Patriot Act for activities unrelated to terrorism, and (4) that attorneys were unethically pressured by Republican law makers to quickly investigate or indict members of the opposite party for election purposes, (5) when attorney’s would not adjust their schedules to Republican needs, they were fired without legitimate cause.
All in all, It looks like a good week’s work for Bush and Co.
March 11th, 2007 at 9:55 amSounds like a plot that any moran could make up. The punch line being, “your gone”.
March 11th, 2007 at 10:53 am“Um, yes.
Comment by Zooey — March 10, 2007 @ 8:32 pmâ€
Um yes? I didn’t expect much more from you!
Comment by michael
Al I expect from you, Michael, is to be a chickenshit debate-dodger.
I have not been disappointed.
March 11th, 2007 at 11:18 am#69 - Crazy Eddie
You are a fine gentleman.
March 11th, 2007 at 11:18 amI can’t find anything on the New Mexico connections, and I live here. Can’t find anything on NM Republican State Chairman Weh. He’s such an idjit, I want to see him squirm. heh heh.
Time for us in NM to give Halliburton Heather and Dementia Pete a pink slip. Time for you to go!! LIARS!!
March 11th, 2007 at 11:35 amAh, the screeching of the trolls. ‘Tis a sure sign that they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the Bush presidency.
You sound a little testy today, michael. It can’t be easy having to defend Rove.
March 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pmCan anybody tell me if a law has been broken by firing those U.S. Attorneys?
Doesn’t the President have the power to request the resignation of any Executive Branch employee?
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