Rove may lead Bush library.
U.S. News reports that “playing key roles” in establishing the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum are Karl Rove, Laura Bush, and former chief of staff Andy Card. “The trio has been interviewing architects and touring similar research campuses for tips. We hear that some are urging Bush to put Rove in charge once it’s built.”
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Oh Lord, another empty building taking up valuable land. My question is… Why?
June 18th, 2007 at 9:57 amExcellent idea!
June 18th, 2007 at 9:58 amLeave room in the budget for iron bars on all the windows, and an exercize yard.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:59 amAs long as the library is located in Hell, I’m fine with this.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:00 amWho in their right mind is going to (1) donate any money to this worthless cause or (2) visit it if it is ever built?
The only reason I would ever consider a visit would be if the urinals had little busts of GDumbya covering the drains. After all, I mean, who could pass up an opportunity like that?
June 18th, 2007 at 10:00 amHow big a lie-brary do they need to hold one copy of “My Pet Goat”?
June 18th, 2007 at 10:01 amWow! A half-billion dollar building with one book in it: “My Pet Goat”
June 18th, 2007 at 10:02 amMost prominently displayed will be the coloring books where the Prez managed to stay within the lines.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:07 amtime to stock up on my pet goat, because that will be the only book available…..
June 18th, 2007 at 10:07 am#6-9
June 18th, 2007 at 10:09 amQuick, get on Ebay!
The land value in Highland Park, TX, will take a dump with the crime family there. KKKarl Rove hasn’t skated jail yet.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:13 amI thought there was a big protest from the school about this being built? Doesn’t really matter, eh?
June 18th, 2007 at 10:14 amIt makes perfect sense considering the whole point of Bush’s library is to re-write history.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:17 amHow’s Rove going to manage it from prison?
June 18th, 2007 at 10:18 amI’m glad to hear they’re putting a dungeon in the basement.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:18 am…which will include the 2nd edition of The Fart Book…
June 18th, 2007 at 10:22 amMost prominently displayed will be the coloring books where the Prez managed to stay within the lines.
…but everything will be white : no black, yellow, red or brown…
June 18th, 2007 at 10:24 amAt the center of the library will be an exhibit featuring a long conveyor belt dumping replicas of the Constitution into an eternal flame.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:25 amDay after day, LaLa sits at the front desk, changing the order of the one Dewey decimal system card, front to back, upside down, right side up.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:25 amMeanwhile, in his luxuriant office suite, seven stories below ground encased in hardened concrete, Karl Rove converts lists of deceased civilian hurricane, tsunami, and war on terror victims into visitor logs for the library.
Andy Card anxiously awaits the results of Karls work, which he will present to potential Republican party donors as proof of the relevancy of Bush’s legacy.
Obviously it will take Rove’s “Dirty Tricks Handbook” to even get this place built. He’ll have to strongarm all donors. It’s good really because if he skates for all the crimes he’s already committed maybe we can get him for blackmail on behalf of the library.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:26 amWouldn’t a Presidential museum more appropriate?
The George W. Bush Presidential Museum would display such items as:
The President’s college cheerleading outfit (severely worn at the knees)
June 18th, 2007 at 10:27 amlots of National Guard memorabilia
the cute little “Purple Hearts” used in the 2004 campaign
the Presidential wire
the stained trousers the President wore on 9/11
an Acme Constitution Shredder
his special Worst President Everâ„¢ plaque
various implements of torture
Well, anything to keep Karl off the streets. If only his duties as the head of the “lie-bury” would keep him so busy that he has no time to meddle in electoral politics!
June 18th, 2007 at 10:27 amIf Rove does as great a job as he did on the Katrina recovery, then I imagine the workers will break ground and use the rest of the money to renovate the Bush Ranch.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:28 amDon’t they have to turn it over to the National Archives once it’s built?
June 18th, 2007 at 10:29 amRove would take an interest in the vault where they’ll hide the evidence.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:30 amThis may be the only Presidential library I visit - not to take any books out or even enjoy the place. I would try to sneak some books in and put them on the shelves as my donation - “My Pet Goat”, “Bushwacked”, a sampling of the “Bushisms” books, and assorted other works that would not be there otherwise.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:31 amWell, someone has to continue to manage all the LIES that have been fed to the American sheeple…no better person than rove.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:33 amHow arrogant of all of them to pretend that a GW Bush Library could have anything of substance in it. Unless they stick to the truth, and nothing but the truth, that damn library is nothing but a sham! Am I the only one who can’t believe there will be one truthful item it it?
June 18th, 2007 at 10:36 amSICK SICK SICK,
why can’t they build this monstosity in Conn. where the pres was born or in Maine where he has a house. Oh, I know, the bass ackwards Bush supporters in Tx want him here. Dallas is SOOOOOOO plastic.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:37 amIt would probably be more truthful (to say nothing of helpful to the American way of life) if Rove was just put in a permanent display in the front lobby.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:37 amI’d love to slip a copy of Fahrenheit 9-11 into the projection room.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:38 amI wonder if the library will include a waterboarding ride.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:38 amGeez, if I didn’t know better, I’d say some of you didn’t like America’s CEOâ„¢ very much.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:43 amI wonder if the library will include a waterboarding ride.
Comment by Oversight is a Bitch.
The waterboarding ride will be part of the amusement park right next to the library.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:45 amTruthfully and all joking aside : this is the most arrogant and ridiculous by product of an administration full of lies, deceit and utter contempt for inelligence. I cannot think of a most tasteless parade of hypocricy : an administration that from day 1 has trampled on The Bill of Rights and the Constitution. To erect a library purporting to be this great voice of the people is the height of hubris. I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind would want to go other than the deluded 27% that still support this damn administraiton. The only thing I’d like to do is deficate on the premises : just like Chimpy and his Cohorts in Crime have done to the American People for almost 7 years.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:45 amWhy do I keep getting vision of the model city Hitler had built…cold, soulless architecture devoid of any style, humor, passion.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:48 amThe Library may actually be a front for the FBIs Total Information Awareness database.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:49 amI heard they were at the ‘Sizzler’s’ and ‘Outback Steakhouse’ in Alexanderia doing research for a Texan-style theme library.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:50 amerrors corrected:
Truthfully and all joking aside : this is the most arrogant and ridiculous by- product of an administration full of lies, deceit and utter contempt for intelligence. I cannot think of a more tasteless parade of hypocrisy : an administration that from day 1 has trampled on The Bill of Rights and the Constitution. To erect a library purporting to be this great voice of the people is the height of hubris. I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind who would want to go other than the deluded 27% that still support this damn administration. The only thing I’d like to do is deficate on the premises : just like Chimpy and his Cohorts in Crime have done to the American People for almost 7 years.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:52 amKarl can run the lie-berry on work-release from prison.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:52 amThe lie-brary’s logo will be a hand giving the finger and tatooed on the four fingers will be the letters “R-O-V-E”.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:56 amKarl can run the lie-berry on work-release from prison.
Comment by Zooey
Hopefully they’ll all have to flee the country before money is wasted on this sham.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:57 amLOL Rove can live at the Bush library, and after Dubya passes away someday then he can be entombed with him in the same casket.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:58 amLike the fox in charge of the chicken coop.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:10 amDon’t they have to turn it over to the National Archives once it’s built?
Comment by plural
Uh, isn’t that spelled “Nazional”?
June 18th, 2007 at 11:13 amBush library. What a great idea! Whenever someone mentions “George Bush” to me, the first thing I think of is literary prowess.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:15 amWho in their right mind is going to (1) donate any money to this worthless cause or (2) visit it if it is ever built?
Comment by Tom
Probably the same 28% who still think Brusch is doing a good job… ya know, the people who donated $27MM to build that Genesis museum in Kentucky. Now, do you think they’ll give no-bid contract to Cheneyburton for the constrution, or will they hire a company that actually knows what it’s doing?
June 18th, 2007 at 11:15 amAnd Jeff Gannon as curator/ ‘head’ librarian.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:16 amKKKarl will be in Heaven.
Like the fox in charge of the chicken coop.
Comment by Karim
More like the sh*t in charge of the outhouse.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:17 amThe dominant feature of the Bush/Rove library will be the enormous Fiction/fantasy section.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:19 amRove was the only possible choice. The full-time job of anyone else appointed to the directorship of the Bush Library would be chasing Rove down for all the records he’s destroyed.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:27 amYeah but thin of all the money they’ll save when the don’t have to bother hiring a fact checker.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:28 ammparker, I was envisioning only one section.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:48 amRevisionist history.
Then again, you could also classify that as fantasy/fiction/bullshit.
Libs, do not despise the President because of his perseverance to eliminate terrorism. Haven’t you noticed that we have not had a significant attack since 9/11? I believe this honorable man deserves a Presidential library and museum for protecting our government and economy. When available, I will give an unknown amount for the project. To thank him, how about doing the same, Libs?
June 18th, 2007 at 11:49 amDaryll, I’ll leave a flaming sack of dog shit on the library doorstep for you to stomp out.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:53 amDon’t forget to stock the library with the fradulent voter caging lists containing thousands of U.S. soldiers names. Maybe they could build a memorial to these brave Americans for laying down both their lives and right to vote, all for Dubya. Perhaps the W cafeteria will serve their remains to complete their shameless exploitation of our soldiers’ bravery.
- Tom
June 18th, 2007 at 11:54 amTo any Rove, Bush or Andy Card flunkies who may be reading this today: ask yourself… what good is a museum when the person who it’s being built for will be spending the rest of his life in Federal Prison.
If you don’t think that’s where they’re all going to wind up, eventually, you’re not living in the reality based community. And you’re going to be in for one helluva surprise here before too long.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:57 amThe only reason we have not had another (”false flag”) attack on American soil is because they are gearing up for another self-inflicted wound to get the Sheeple’s ok to Bomb Iran. Cheney is deep in preparations now for the next provovcative act.
June 18th, 2007 at 12:00 pmThen again, you could also classify that as fantasy/fiction/bullshit.
Comment by RUCerious
That’s odd… whenever I go into a Barnes and Noble, I can find the “fantasy” and the “fiction” sections, but never the “bullshit” shelves. Am I looking in the wrong place, RUCerious?
June 18th, 2007 at 12:01 pmWell someone is going to have to spin the entire bush presidency … who better than the architect of the disaster?
June 18th, 2007 at 12:04 pmWill they list the names of 3,500+ dead American soldiers in tribute to those sacrificed for a needless war?
Will they show pictures of these same honorable Americans?
Will they list the names of, (and still dying), Katrina victims as we close in on 2 years of neglect from the Bush administration?
Will Jeff Gannon be guarding the ‘back door’?
Will KKKarl be like a WalMart greeter at the ‘front door’?
Will Alberto be the janitor, out on work release?
Will LaLa be put to work, indexing both books?
Will the twins be there, perhaps sharing mixed drink recipes?
And, most importantly, will Babs be in charge of cultural diversity?
June 18th, 2007 at 12:05 pmPerhaps it should look like -
A huge Trash Can or a Large Bomb
It could figure -
A Torture Chamber and a room dedicated to rigged elections
They could have a Lie detector at the entrance with waterboarding those who fail.
The possibilities are endless
IGNORE THE TROLLS - Debate good, Trolls suck
June 18th, 2007 at 12:16 pmAnd also don’t forget to erect the fallen soldiers of Iraq wall right in front of the place.
June 18th, 2007 at 12:17 pmWill there be a windowless dungeon to move Geronimo’s bones to before his relatives get a search warrant to search Yale for them?
“Geronimo’s family call on Bush to help return his skeleton”
“The great grandson of the Apache leader Geronimo has appealed to the big chief in the White House to help recover the remains of his famous relative - purportedly stolen more than 90 years ago by a group of students - including the President’s grandfather.”
http://news.independent.co.uk/ world/ americas/ article622744.ece
June 18th, 2007 at 12:21 pmhttp://www.georgewbush.org/
It’s Commander Cod (The Decider) himself
June 18th, 2007 at 12:31 pm“When available, I will give an unknown amount for the project.”
Comment by Daryll
Uhh, Daryll?
June 18th, 2007 at 12:43 pmThis thread is about a library, not a sperm bank.
Kay - I agree - I think they have plans to cancel the 2008 election by staging a ‘terror attack.’ The only thing that gives me hope is that events may catch up to them before they can put all the details in place. Plus, Bandar Bush has his own problems now and may not be so willing to provide the flunkies to do the job.
So, yes, trolls, you can count me as the ‘loony left.’ But when the truth comes out, I want an apology.
June 18th, 2007 at 1:07 pmBetter Rove, than Sandy “Burgler” Berger.
June 18th, 2007 at 1:23 pmYes, trolls, count me as part of the loony left, when the sh*t hits fan here before they CANCEL the 2008 election, please forward your apology to me then.
June 18th, 2007 at 1:46 pmDouglas G
You do know that “Sandy” is a male and not a female, don’t you? Or do your obsessions go in the homoerotic direction?
June 18th, 2007 at 1:49 pmjust wondering after the next 9/11 : How will the deluded 27% judge Chimpy’s ability to defend the Homeland, then?
June 18th, 2007 at 1:50 pmAh hell!, this is just to over the top for me….Did Nixon get a library.? I can’t remember..
Seem’s to me this bunch of war-monging, lier’s and thieves need to go to jail before they can build a damn library with to lagitimate book’s in it, my pet goat and a coloring book done by bull shit himself…
It’s Monday and they never were any good any way..
I’m sickened by the thought these people continue to cause distruction here and over there, hundred’s of thousand’s are dieing and we cant get the GD dem’s to get off their asses and do what the public want’s, what the legal system should be doing and what the world will soon demand of us one way or another…Good and funny post’s by you all, except the tiny little black hearted troll’s of course…
For Peeeeee1’s benefit, we didn’t get an attack on our soil by saudis the entire time Clinton was in, dumbass….Bull shit bush will go down in history as the worst self appointed pres ever…In all libraries he will be portrayed the fool, murderer and most hated person in the world….Get your library card’s out and dusted off for new book’s prooving that sentance…..Blessings
June 18th, 2007 at 2:03 pmRove needs to be in charge: he will have to oversee that the architects completely hide the hermetically sealed vault which contains incriminating evidence, and that it remains sealed.
June 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pmWhile at his post there, he will have the daily task of teaching Georgie to read. Laura will be in charge of teaching little children about My Pet Goat, telling tales of its historical significance, and Card will be there in his white gloves, ushering everyone to “move along.”
Once inside, there is no reversing of course, no reconsidering which hallway to enter, no asking directions or advice, but everyone will be forced to proceed past the Bush memorabilia including many of his most (in)famous quotes.
#65- Nig-Row, Puh-LEEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 18th, 2007 at 2:47 pmwhat will be in it? don’t they destroy all their records and papers?? you know, like grandpa Bush’s buddies over there in Berlin??
June 18th, 2007 at 3:09 pm#59 Republic
June 18th, 2007 at 3:15 pmShould be right next to the book by O’Heilly.
So, will boy Bush still get his library if he’s living in exile in Paraquay?
When Clinton was President, there were many candid photos appearing in the press that included Hillary and Chelsea. There are very few candid photos of boy Bush with the twins. Does this mean that his own daughters don’t want to be seen in public with him?
June 18th, 2007 at 3:54 pmWhen available, I will give an unknown amount for the project. To thank him, how about doing the same, Libs? –Comment by Daryll
I refuse to “thank” the man who failed to prevent the worst terrorist attack ever to occur on American soil.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:15 pmThey’re going to have to build a jail cell for the “Rove exhibit” in “Bush’s Library” (now there’s an oxymoron).
June 18th, 2007 at 4:43 pmHere’s another item that threatens to make my head explode. Just the words, “Bush Library” make me cringe. I’d be really curious how anyone can possibly spin the worst presidency in American history into anything remotely worth remembering for Anything positive. My take on it is that history will record George W. as a milestone on what any president should Never, Ever do.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:53 pmGood going, Daryll, Bush needs your $$.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:53 pm(Like he needs another hole in his head.)
Some people are just hopelessly stupid.
some one has to spin the spun, spinned, spin.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:57 pm‘bush library’, which is an obvious oxymoron, will have as much truth about the history of the bush admin as the ‘creation museum’ (also another oxymoron).
June 18th, 2007 at 5:02 pmKarl “Rump Rover” Rove reportedly has bought for $2 million in taxpayer money a number 10 spot for his boss in the forthcoming and eagerly awaited printing of “10 Most Successful Pimps in the Nation.” Rover also promised he would purchase 2,000 capies (at $100,000 per, also paid by taxpayers) to be placed in the least tasteful manner possible throughout the SMU lie-bray. A special site has been preserved for the book in all men’s restrooms, where a butt slammin’ porn video featuring Gorgeous George, Daisy Chain Cheney and Confidential Condi will be looped during business hours.
June 18th, 2007 at 6:11 pm#54 daryll - my sides!!! - MY SIDES!!!! - please daryll i only have so many ribs and you are too funny!! - “the george w bush museum”?….mu ha ha ha ha……AH HA HA….cough….wheeze….splutter!!!…..must stop thinking about….losing breath…close thread now
June 18th, 2007 at 7:58 pmI looked in my crystal ball and have seen President Bush and Rove pulling a similar stunt to the one Governor Bush pulled while governor of Texas, specifically involving Governor Bush’s papers.
In that case, Bush (and Rove) got someone in the Texas Legislature to include a provision in a law that made it possible for Bush to give his “papers” to his daddy’s presidential library in East Texas, essentially removing his “papers” from Texas control…since his “papers” were on “federal land” at his daddy’s presidential library. A lawsuit ensued. The denial of access to Governor Bush’s “papers” was reversed, but the process of getting access still remains difficult.
So, it was not surprising when Bush changed the “law” involving the release of previous president’s “papers” once he became president, and started besmirching the White House with his evil little smirk.
Anyway, between now and January 2009, Bush is bound to sign an executive order giving him (or his chosen representative) sole authority over his presidential “papers,” which presumably will be housed at his presidential library, at least those presidential “papers” that haven’t already been destroyed.
And who would Bush choose to run his presidential library and safeguard his “papers”? Karl Rove would seem to be the perfect pick.
I figure that someday after Bush slithers out of the White House, federal marshals will have to be sent to his presidential library to seize control of his presidential “papers” (or what’s left of them) in an attempt to stop any further “obstruction of justice” by these criminal Republicans.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:19 pm“To any Rove, Bush or Andy Card flunkies who may be reading this today: ask yourself… what good is a museum when the person who it’s being built for will be spending the rest of his life in Federal Prison.” (Reich Winger’s NightMare, post 57)
Excellent observation.
But I’m thinking that we can save the taxpayers some money by combining the two: Bush’s museum and a Federal Prison.
Specifically, ALCATRAZ.
It would be the perfect future site of Bush’s presidential library and museum.
In this way, when George W. Bush ends up in a jail cell, his jail cell will be part of his library and museum complex, giving tourists a chance not only to peruse accounts of Bush’s glorious triumphs as a unitary executive president, but also they can stop by and actually see Bush in a jail cell, with a “Don’t feed the monkey” sign beside his locked cell door.
And there’d be plenty of room at a refurbished ALCATRAZ for Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld and all the other neo-con Republicans, who will be paying their debt to our democratic society (and all the damage they’ve done) by being locked away for a long, long time.
Also, there’d be plenty of room for all the Republicans caught up in the Abramoff scandal, filling up the cells beside the Bush crime family, and with similar “Don’t feed the monkey” signs.
ALCATRAZ and the Bush presidential library and museum. I can dig it.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:38 pm