brainrow :: 2006 :: October

President Bush is campaigning with House Speaker Dennis Hastert…

“Oh, that’s a winning strategy,” I thought, chuckling. Then it hit me — Karl Rove’s an acknowledged political genius — could he be sending Bush and Hastert out to campaign for… Democrats?

Could it be that all the screw-ups and abuses of the last six years have been a deliberate effort to turn Bush and other top Republicans into pure political poison, just so they could sabotage Democratic candidates with their support?

Look, look, I know it sounds pretty outlandish. But… but Karl Rove’s a genius. He could think of stuff like this, easy.

2006 10 12

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Don’t Expect an Answer

Via Crooks and Liars:

2006 10 12

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Rove Did It! Rove!

Oh, I just knew Karl Rove was involved somehow.

The New Republic website reports that Mark Foley was going to cash out — quit Congress and get a high-paid job as a lobbyist — but GOP congressional leadership and the White House wanted to hold onto a safe seat, so they kept pulling him back in:

According to the source, Foley said he was being pressured by “the White House and Rove gang,” who insisted that Foley run. If he didn’t, Foley was told, it might impact his lobbying career.

“He said, ‘The White House made it very clear I have to run,'” explains Foley’s friend, adding that Foley told him that the White House promised that if Foley served for two more years it would “enhance his success” as a lobbyist. “I said, ‘I thought you wanted out of this?’ And he said, ‘I do, but they’re scared of losing the House and the thought of two years of Congressional hearings, so I have two more years of duty.'”

I’ll bet Foley’s happy now — he can pursue those high-paid lobbying opportunities after all.