Karl Rove orchestrating the ‘Bush Legacy project.’
Karl Rove orchestrating the ‘Bush Legacy project.’
President Bush’s interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson this week was the “first of several planned ‘exit interviews.’” According to White House press secretary Dana Perino, Bush’s next interview will be with ABC’s Cynthia McFadden on the topic of the faith-based initiative. It will air on Nightline next week. If the first interview with Gibson provides any clue as to what we can expect from these interviews, Bush will paint a rosy picture of his legacy and “refuse to take responsibility for a single thing that went wrong on his watch.” Heather at Crooks and Liars catches the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes revealing that Karl Rove is currently orchestrating the Bush legacy project:
[T]here’s an ongoing Bush legacy project that’s been meeting in the White House, really, with senior advisers, Karl Rove, Karen Hughes has been involved, current senior Bush administration advisers and they are looking at how to sort of roll out the President’s legacy.
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Will it be any more factual than the Blair Witch Project? Can they atleast hold the camcorder steady while they make their home movie?
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 pm'Bush Legacy project' i.e., how to destroy the world's economy and murder millions in 8 short years.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 pmOf course Karl Rove is driving this bus. It could only be Rove or Alberto. They are Bush's go to guys. NO Surprise.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:55 pmWhy isn't the traitor Rove in jail?
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
‘Bush Legacy project’ i.e., how to destroy the world’s economy and murder millions in 8 short years.
Yo Doc, you are getting lazy or what, you forgot...And Steal all the world's money at the same time. Credit Default swaps will totaly over 50 TRillion $$$, more than the entire worth of the world.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pmWe need to capture these criminals like Rove, strip them of their skin, fillet their muscles, and pluck their eyeballs; then pack it up and along with all the other effluents, and progeny they may have had, 4 levels out, blast them all in a rocket to the sun to never, ever contaminate the gene pool of the human race.
Oh and then we need to invade Switzerland and the Cayman Islands to find all the anonymous bank accounts where the CASH is.
War, death, debt, and corruption ain't much of a legacy.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pmMaybe Jeff Gannon can supply a few memoirs or even so photos.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pmdbadass, you reminded me; Clinton accomplished more in his "Final Days" video than Bush has accomplished in eight, pathetic years.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 pmGod, they are truly pathetic and without shame. Do you really think people are going to somehow forget the economic meltdown, your war on science, your war against a country that didn't attack us, doing nothing when warned we were going to be attacked, doing nothing while a city drowned, your spying on your own citizens, torture......I really could go on, but I'm too depressed and angry.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 pmOh my, this is like the "clear skies" pollution plan rebranding! Bush Legacy!! ROTFL! He better be spending a LOT OF MADISON AVENUE DOLLARS ON REBRANDING, because the ONLY LEGACY that Bush has left is death, destruction and DEFAULTS!
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 pmThe Bush Legacy Project is the moral equivalent of the Dahmer Family trying to reclaim their good name by publishing a cook book.
-GSD
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 pmRove said Bush would not have gone to war in Iraq had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction.
First, that'd be Cheney, not Bush. Let's not pretend this was a Bush presidency. Second, Cheney had no other course in mind than war. He even told ElBareidi he'd trash inspectors' reputations to push for war, a vile, dishonorable act, SOP for a vile and criminal regime operating solely for the profits of Exxon, Chevron, Boeing, Blackwater, Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon etc. ad nauseam.
Bite me, Karl.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 pmNo suprise here, bet rove is even coloring in bush's two book's for his library...Blessings
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 pmDoes Rove need plans for an old style western gallows? I could get those up on the computer in about a D.C. minute.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 pmHi WitchyOne!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 pmGSD #@11!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pmROFLMFAO !~!
Karl Rove orchestrating the ‘Bush Legacy project.’
Otherwise known as 'putting lipstick on this damn pig'.
It's going to take a little more than a few make-up artists.
Methinks they will need a whole team of crack plastic surgeons to make the pig look halfway decent.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pmGuess history is too sensitive to reality to allow the facts of bush's failures to stand on their own. No matter how they dress this pig up, it's still a pig.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pmGimme a serious SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 pmThe Bush Legacy Project. Kind of sounds like a high school science project, or science fiction project. And it may have a track record of merit. Frankenstein was misunderstood. The Mummy was doing just fine till somebody messed with him. The Werewolf was bad only one night a month, and it wasn't his fault! Dracula? Look how popular vampires are now! If they get the right test tubes and lab coats, who knows? Now that's scary!
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 pmBush will paint a rosy picture of his legacy and “refuse to take responsibility for a single thing that went wrong on his watch.”
In other words, nothing has changed and George Bush is staying the course, ie, blaming Congress, liberals, his predecessor, his successor, those darn ingrate Iraqis, and whoever else he may think of...
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 pmUndertaker Rove is trying to make the corpse look good, but it's still going in the ground.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 pmkarl is paying people five bucks
to say nice things about bush.
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five bucks!
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December 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 pmBack at ya RUCerious...Blessings
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 pmDon't worry Karl, David Broder still loves you.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:45 pmRove said Bush would not have gone to war in Iraq had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction. Bill Kristol agreed.
Well, then they should have asked me because I knew there were no weapons there.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:45 pmstewarjt Says:
Rove said Bush would not have gone to war in Iraq had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction. Bill Kristol agreed.
Well, then they should have asked me because I knew there were no weapons there.
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no five bucks for you!
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December 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 pmWill we be privy to how Bush will answer the questions in his "exit" interview on why he's done absolutely jack-squat in his final months in office while the nation has circled and entered the drain? He caused this, maybe he should at least help fix it instead of being the "Where's Waldo" of presidents.
I thought being President meant more than sitting around in your office and planning your retirement. Only the deities know how many hundreds of thousands of those he's "supposed" to be serving have lost their financial flexibility for their elder years. If there is a God, they'll at least put Karl Rove and Grover Norquist into severe, unreconcilable financial debt.
But that doesn't matter when your money is tied up in a bank that will never go under and when Daddy could bite the big one at any moment.
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 amNo job is to big or to tough for the 'Ministry of Truth'.
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 amSam Stein reports that, during a debate in New York on Bush's legacy, Rove said Bush would not have gone to war in Iraq had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction. Bill Kristol agreed.
They must think we're stoopid or have severe LTM deficits.
In the absence of the WoMDs, initially the neothugs just said that we'd invaded to spread democracy and that was sufficient reason.... But that was yesterday, this is today.
Cheers,
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 amIf history is any gauge Rove will do for the Bush legacy what he did for Dubyas dismal poll numbers.
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 amThe totality of the past 8 years - especially the past 2 - have proven rove to be a fool. He is not a genius.
He was part of the team that took a post 9/11 president with unprecedented popularity (here in US and around world) and plunged him into the most unpopular president in modern times and perhaps US history.
Dur chimpfuhrer is now even more unpopular than richard nixon was right before he resigned and he has been this unpopular for an extended period of time.
Rove is just the public face on a criminal cabal - the mainstream media created the monster that is now widely known as "chimpy".
Please don't kid yourself - the same owners of the mainstream media will use those assets to prop up chimpy's "legacy" and, like everything else, has little or nothing to do with kkkarl rove or any of the pundits that have been wrong about virtually EVERYTHING.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 amIf anyone doubts we will see an unprecedented effort to "rehab" chimpy and the family name - click through his link:
Jeb Bush considers Senate run
Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida and brother to outgoing president George, is considering a Senate run, The Atlantic reported.
You think the propaganda was bad before? Just wait - did it disgust you the way the corpse of richard nixon was elevated to an "elder statesman"?
You ain't seen nothin' yet!
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 amShooting down Rove and Kristol's pathological lies is like shooting fish in a barrel:
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And what happened at President Bush's very first National Security Council meeting is one of O'Neill's most startling revelations.
“From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” says O’Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic "A" 10 days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11.
“From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime,” says Suskind. “Day one, these things were laid and sealed.”
As treasury secretary, O'Neill was a permanent member of the National Security Council. He says in the book he was surprised at the meeting that questions such as "Why Saddam?" and "Why now?" were never asked.
"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this,’" says O’Neill. “For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap.”
And that came up at this first meeting, says O’Neill, who adds that the discussion of Iraq continued at the next National Security Council meeting two days later.
He got briefing materials under this cover sheet. “There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, ‘Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,’" adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
"The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason," Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in a Pentagon transcript of an interview with Vanity Fair.
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During his interview with Vanity Fair in early May, Wolfowitz cited several payoffs from the war, including removing the need for American forces in Saudi Arabia.
Those troops were sent to protect the desert kingdom against Saddam, whose forces invaded Kuwait in 1990. But their presence in the country that is home to Islam's holiest sites enraged many Muslims, including al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Within two weeks of the fall of Baghdad, the United States announced it was removing most of its 5,000 troops from Saudi Arabia.
"Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government," Wolfowitz said. "It's been a huge recruiting device for al-Qaeda."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-05-30-wolfowitz-iraq_x.htm
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- Tom
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 amRepublicans rewriting history? Quel surprise...
I'm looking forward to the Heritage Foundation report proving the whole Bush Administration was Bill Clinton's fault.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WugcAuQMP1s
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 amBut, they did know there were no WMD. There were other sources telling them as much. They choose not to believe those sources. There were inspectors on the ground (Hans Blix) who had not found anything and argued they would not find anything. They begged to remain in Iraq and to continue the inspections. They were told to pack up and leave. Hey, this was a war Bush and Cheney wanted badly. Nothing was going to stop them from invading Iraq. This is Bush's legacy.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 amThat's the priority? The country is in "swirl to flushing mode" and this worthless chunk of excrement is spending his resources creating an alternate history legacy. It just goes to show Bush doesn't one iota about America. I loved how the intelligence people took the hit. The papers are there folks the word was out We're going to flying airplanes in to the twin-towers. There are no weapons of mass destruction . Hussein is not linked to al qaeda. There was no yellow cake purchase. All made up or enhanced for consumption by us dummies
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:30 ammarcg Says:
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:33 amLike you say, should have read it first, but it doesn't hurt to keep repeating it loud and clear
Karin(Bigfoot*)Hughes, Ann Coulters twin brother crawls out of some bunker in Texas, to help re-package Bush's two major accomplishments as human being:
Colorizing "My Pet Goat," and the 1st president in modern times to have "ONLY" men lovers in the White House!
* wears a size 14EEE high heels
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 amChimpy's legacy will be easy to orchestrate: 1) Bring em on, 2) Mission Accomplished, 3) Jail.
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:33 amKarl Rove orchestrating the ‘Bush Legacy project.’
Let the re-writing of History begin!!
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:56 amKarl,
You can't polish a turd.
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 amThe Bush Legacy, hmmm? Let's take a quick look at the big picture:
Pappy Prescott Bush-War profiteer during WWII. Was integral in an attempted coup of the American Gov't. Was involved with the Pioneer Fund, an early eugenics research group that among other goals, hoped to prove scientifically that "negros were inferior".
Jonathan Bush (brother of George H.W.) was a Division President at Riggs Bank, which collapsed in 2004 after paying $41 million in fines for money-laundering and fraud. Riggs concealed illicit transactions for Saudi royals andformer Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Riggs Bank held the account of Saudi Arabia's US Ambassador Prince Bandar for whom Jonathan was longtime financial adviser, and whose wife sent more than $80 thousand in Cashiers' checks to a San Diego address, that wound up funding two of the 9/11 hijackers.
William H.T. “Bucky’’ Bush (another brother of George H. W.) made more than $2.7 million through the sale of a company, Engineered Support Systems Inc., with millions of dollars in Iraq war contracts. He was also cited by the SEC for withholding bad news from shareholders while he cashed stock options worth $450,000.
George H.W.Bush-Involved with the CIA during the Bay of Pigs, longtime friend of the Bin Laden family, broker of the Iran/Contra scandal and deeply involved in the cover-uop with Dick Cheney.
George W. Bush-AWOL during his Texas Air National guard stint, two stolen elections, ignored warnings leading up to 9/11, started illegal war in Iraq, coddled his Saudi friends despite evidence of involvement in 9/11, more more profiteering for oil buddies, contractor friends. Ignored warnings and sat on the sidelines through two recessions, ignored Katrina victims, politicized every facet of gov't, illegal wiretapping, torture etc.
Yeah, the Bush family sure has a REAL pro-America legacy, huh? (snark)
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 amOh yeah I almost forgot the latest from brother Jeb. His desire to form a shadow-government to regroup the dazed Republican Party. Yee-frickin'-ha more anti-American activity by one of our Country's most corrupt families! We can only hope that George's daughters have inherited their father's laziness and will be too busy shopping and avoiding responsibility to enter politics or big business.
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 amIf the legacy does not inlcude supression of constitutional and international law, failure, corruption, destruction and looting, this "historical" account should be in the fiction section of any library.
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am"Wouldn't have gone to war but for the intelligence"?? Ever hear about teh Project for a New American Century or the Office for Special Plans?
There is NO DOUBT they would have gone to war regardless. I know this because 1.) Bush denied it; and 2.) Kristol denied it. Which means they definitely would have, Q.E.D.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 pmMachiavelli reincarnate, alias Karl Rove, has taken on the quixotic task of putting lipstick on the rotting, stinking political corpse of a vile, disgusting, homicidal boar.
George Bush will go down in history with the likes of Pinochet, Marcos, Pahlevi, Noriega and other right wing thugs. Not quite in Hitler's, Stalin's or Mao's league, but definitely a villain. Of course Rove himself won't get any honorable mentions, either, which is perhaps part of his motivation to sprinkle perfume on the corpse.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:34 amThe worst of the Bush legacy is that he played into Bin Laden's hands with his reaction to 911 giving Bin Laden the result he sought to achieve, US economic bedlam.
December 9th, 2008 at 1:28 pmThe existence of a "Legacy Project" is its own failure - writ large. Where's the the Lincoln legacy project?; the FDR legacy project?; the JFK legacy project?
December 29th, 2008 at 7:30 pm