Liberal College Kid

Celebrate my liberal friends!! Bush’s brain is leaving the White House!

< I Quit!!!

The Washington Post said:

“Karl Rove, the architect of President Bush’s two national campaigns and his most prominent adviser through 6-1/2 tumultuous years in the White House, announced today that he will resign at the end of the month.”

Mr. Rove’s role in the White House is one that has perhaps redefined the way we view the President’s advisers who do not have to be approved through the confirmation process. Just to refresh anyone’s memory here’s a small highlight reel of Rove’s accomplishments:

Rove was involved in the CIA leak case, narrowly skirting indictment there as he and other Bush staffers let Scooter Libby take the fall and then ultimately not go to jail. He has been called out by Democrats in Congress for his role in the US Attorney scandal. You know, the whole ‘give my former aide one of these positions since he’ll be sure to only go after Democrats.’ He claims executive privilege to refuse subpoenas and he would not show up for a congressional hearing on the improper use of Republican National Committee e-mail accounts by White House folks. A real winner huh?

Another of my favorite Rove stories was his fight with Sheryl Crow, featuring the dialog:

(from the Huffington Post) Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, “Don’t touch me.” How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unfazed, Sheryl abruptly responded, “You can’t speak to us like that, you work for us.” Karl then quipped, “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people.” To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, “We are the American people.”

Then, of course, there was MC Rove:

But seriously, what is Rove’s legacy? He has been, without question the most powerful man in our country who was never been elected or appointed to any governmental office as outlined in the constitution. Rove’s position falls into Article II Section 2 where it says “but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.” Is Rove’s really an “inferior office?

The fact that he was able to claim executive privledge signifies that his office is far from inferior, which makes me think we may need to take another look at who the President surrounds themselves with. Rove led the fight to trample the constitution with such measures as the PATRIOT Act, helped out a CIA official, helped fire US Attorney’s for not being partisan enough, and generally broke the law along with the rest of the Bush administration.  He will be remembered as a very bright man, but one who helped usher in one of the darkest chapters in our country’s history.

Perhaps Senator Leahy summed Rove up best when he said,

“The list of senior White House and Justice Department officials who have resigned during the course of these congressional investigations continues to grow, and today, Mr. Rove added his name to that list. There is a cloud over this White House, and a gathering storm. A similar cloud envelopes Mr. Rove, even as he leaves the White House.”