{"id":1271,"date":"2007-08-13T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2007-08-13T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T12:15:14","slug":"on-karl-roves-upcoming-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"On Karl Rove’s Upcoming Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

First draft of history time — senior Presidential advisor Karl Rove will be resigning his post come the end of August<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The President won’t have Turdblossom — Bush’s nickname for Rove — to kick around any more.<\/p>\n

I wish I could write that “It doesn’t surprise me to see Rove leave,” but I’d be lying. I can’t imagine Bush letting<\/i> Rove leave. Rove is “Bush’s Brain.”<\/p>\n

I guess what this means is that Dick Cheney will be making more of the decisions now.<\/p>\n

There’s a long profile on Rove in The Atlantic<\/i> this month and why his — yes, his<\/i> — Presidency failed<\/a>. Of course, now the article’s first line — “With more than a year left in the fading Bush presidency, Karl Rove\u2019s worst days in the White House may still lie ahead of him” — is no longer operable; he has<\/i> no more days in the White House ahead of him.<\/p>\n

I’m not sorry to see him go. I think Rove’s strategy of “50 plus 1” was a cancer on the body politic in that he amped up the partisanship of the 90s to a whole new degree.<\/p>\n

Still, I can’t imagine why Bush would condone a lobotomy on his administration unless he, like the majority of Americans, wants his presidency to be over, stat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First draft of history time — senior Presidential advisor Karl Rove will be resigning his post come the end of August. The President won’t have Turdblossom — Bush’s nickname for Rove — to kick around any more. I wish I could write that “It doesn’t surprise me to see Rove leave,” but I’d be lying.Continue reading “On Karl Rove’s Upcoming Departure”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-karl-rove","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}