U.S. News reports:
President Bush’s behind-the-curtain adviser, Karl Rove, is expected to reprise that role for the prez in Texas, we hear. Now retired from the White House, Rove is planning to take charge of the Bush library and museum, including the design, fundraising, and planning for what insiders are calling a copy of the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University. But he won’t be the front man, say friends, instead focusing on putting the president’s stamp on the facility that is expected to be aligned with Dallas’s Southern Methodist University. Rove has long played a key role on the library project, and with his resignation and the selection of New York’s Robert A. M. Stern Architects to draw the massive facility, the timing is good to speed up the effort, say Bushies.
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Watch out for a slew of 501(c)(3)’s to soon be established by Rove to suck in all sorts of illegal money. Why else would you put a political fundraiser and subterfugist in charge?
September 4th, 2007 at 10:30 amI hope they don’t use Rove’s “math” to calculate proper load-bearing strenghts. It will crumble into a heap of rubble if they do……wait I hope they do use his numbers.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:31 amhe’ll probably do a better job with the legasy museum than he
September 4th, 2007 at 10:31 amdid with his job of new orleans reconstruction…
ya think?
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This library has a cost of $500,000,000.00.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:32 amIt’s only purpose is to rewrite history to put Bush in a favorable light.
What a waste of time, money, energy, etc.
And Rove will really shine when he takes over the string of official Bush restrooms in the Bush Library and the Bush museum. That’s where the real action will be as far as conservatives are concerned.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:38 amWhat a joke, the Bush library is meant as a fluff tank, to stroke the ego’s of the failures in the is administration, along with its chief failure G. W. Bush.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:45 amExamples of an oxymoron:
“alone together”
September 4th, 2007 at 10:45 am“amateur expert”
“civil war”
“Congressional ethics”
“Bush library”
Not surprising at all considering the whole Orwellian point of the Bush library is to house a think tank whose sole purpose is rewriting history to reflect favourably on the Bush admin and the conservative agenda.
Who better to take charge of that initiative than Rove, who has technically been doing that very job since he first got into politics.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:45 amRove just received his first donation from the RNC to ensure that gloryholes be installed in every men’s room stall partition.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:46 amPresidential libraries are mostly one big tax write-off. All sorts of “valuable memorabilia” is given to the museum as charitable donations. It is just like Rove to be the point man in a Republican scheme to defraud the American taxpayers.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:46 amRove Revisionism.
Get used to those 2 words, because you’ll be hearing a lot about Karl in the next year.
Rove Revisionism: ‘History R Us’
This from the guy who says Bush reads up to 20 books a year.
Rove Revisionism: ‘If we don’t like what history says about us, we’ll rewrite history’
September 4th, 2007 at 10:47 amWonder If Miss Piggy Rove is going to have a dungeon in the library, so when Gannon visits it can be like “old-times”
September 4th, 2007 at 10:48 amlol, with 1 book…. yep you guessed it pRESIDUNCY for dummies.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:49 am“All sorts of “valuable memorabilia†is given to the museum as charitable donations.”
Comment by Peter C
“Where would you like us to park the semi, sir?
September 4th, 2007 at 10:50 amThere are 19 more enroute…..”
How is the library going to stay above ground when it is going to be built on a foundation of shit.
-GSD
September 4th, 2007 at 10:50 am“Rove has long played a key role on the library project, and with his resignation and the selection of New York’s Robert A. M. Stern Architects to draw the massive facility, the timing is good to speed up the effort, say Bushies.”
Karl Rove has found Bush’s Albert Speer.
-GSD
September 4th, 2007 at 10:51 amI think they’d do well to pattern it after a federal penitentiary.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:55 amBush NEEDS people working FULL TIME to try to prop up his dismal record. If you have to work THIS HARD to defend your LEGACY, you must not have MUCH OF A LEGACY.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:58 amDon’t know why they are bothering with the library, everything will be classified, so it isn’t like anyone from the public will be allowed to read anything.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:58 amand they are kicking seniors out of their homes to build it, no surprise here:
http://www.nysun.com/article/27794
September 4th, 2007 at 11:10 amThey should consult with that swell new creationist museum on how to handle inconvenient facts and evidence in a museum-like setting. Why bother reinventing the wheel.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:12 amWith each day, the Bush presidency more and more resembles the disgraced tenure of Richard Nixon. And now, it seems, the disturbing Nixon-Bush parallels extend to their presidential libraries.
For the details, see:
September 4th, 2007 at 11:15 am“Nixon Presidential Library Fraud Ends As Bush’s Begins.”
Come one, come all to the opening of the George W. Bush Museum!
See the original Constitution in all it’s up-dated glory (with strike marks and signing statements in vibrant red pen throughout).
See Public Enemy # One (not Osama but the half eaten, newly bronzed pretzel).
Stroll the “Clinton Did It Too” wing (dedicated with donations from trolls from around the nation).
Ride the G.W. Bush Air National Guard Simulator (you receive a noseload of coke, two shots of scotch and leave with a self-bloated sense of having served in the Vietnam struggle).
Show your receipt at the reception desk to receive your pair of rose colored glasses and discount coupon to the Bush Cafe
September 4th, 2007 at 11:18 amFundraising. No wonder he’s pretending to be a Christian.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:28 am.
Bush Library aka PT Barnum museum.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:43 amI thought Rove’s next move would be to Paraguay.
September 4th, 2007 at 12:00 pmThis is why Rove has been out rewriting history recently. He was basically giving everyone a preview of the Bush “Library” he has been working on. And just like the Bush Administration, the Bush “Library” will be wrought with mendacity, too.
September 4th, 2007 at 12:20 pmWill the first book be, “My Pet Goat�
Comment by Chewbacca — September 4, 2007 @ 10:33 am
The ONLY book should be “My Pet Goat”.
September 4th, 2007 at 12:24 pmThat would speak volume about his legacy. Pun intended.
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Karl Rove to rewrite history in a favorable light towards George Bush.
By the time your kids grow up, re-written history will consider George Bush the best POTUS ever!
Not that your kids will grow up because Feminism has destroyed marriage.
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September 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pmRove in charge of Bush’s Lie-brary. How appropriate.
September 4th, 2007 at 12:51 pmHow appropriate!
Up until now Hoover was one of the worst Republican presidents, so it’s the only right thing to do to model it after the Hoover Institution.
Maybe Rove oughta take a trip to Yorba Linda as well…
September 4th, 2007 at 12:57 pmDubya’s “Freedom Institute”, speading freedom and democracy one bomb at a time….
Cheers,
September 4th, 2007 at 1:28 pmSo Southern Methodist University gets a future Al Qaeda target on there own campus?
I bet they must be proud.
September 4th, 2007 at 2:03 pmClick for an artist’s (me) rendering of the proposed George W Bush Liberry at SMU.
September 4th, 2007 at 4:11 pm#35 nffcnnr:
And here’s the architect’s drawings….
Cheers,
September 4th, 2007 at 4:56 pmi just recalled… who was it i heard on the teevee, very soon after rove “resigned”, say that he figured rove was going beck to texas to run some texan’s campaign for 08 (sorry, i forget those details)…
could he be doing both projects?
just a wonderin’…
September 4th, 2007 at 5:36 pm…
Will there be a special wing for international tribunals? Will there be a mock up prison block or a hanging rope to show Bush’s final years.
September 4th, 2007 at 6:42 pmi think there should be a massive criminal wing of this library with the usual suspects to illustrate to American children that crimes against the state that goes unpunished makes our democracy fragile and so what’s more important: a nation that upholds the law or the MEN that mock that notion.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:08 am