Retired has one too many 'R’s and 'E’s. I’d still rather see ‘Tried’ (followed closely by ‘and convicted’)
It’ll be interesting to see if the 2008 nominee wants him. On the one hand, they’re going to need his talent to put it over the top. On the other, he represents everything about the Bush administration that the nominee would be smart to run away from.
My guess is that he’ll get a nice wingnut welfare position and advise the 2008 campaign in secret.
Can someone please tell me why this motherfucker is allowed to ride on Air Force One down to Texas instead of flying commercial?
Is he the Attorney General? He is not. He is a private citizen, not an elected official. At our considerable expense, he is being ferried around.
Bullshit.
This man will be the one who makes Rudy the next President. 
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Until then, we’ll have to content ourselves with this old ditty:
Ding, dong,
The witch is dead!
Which old witch?
The wicked witch!
Anyway.
I’m not so sanguine about Mr. Rove’s future prospects. As I recall, things went downhill rather fast for H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman after Nixon cut them loose.
CNN.com: "He said the first thing he’ll do after leaving the White House is ‘go dove hunting in West Texas.’ "
What a fucking douchebag. Probably thought hard about getting all the symbolism right too.
Well, the joke’s on him cuz I doubt there are any “doves” in West Texas.
Hey, it’s the thing to do when you want to shoot people in the face, I hear.
Well, hopefully he’ll be taking Dead Eye Dick with him. 
But Nixon was the brains of that operation–Bush may have brains (or at least an instinct for survival), but Dick"I shoot my friends and they apologize to me" Cheyney pulls the strings, IMO. Bertie, Dick and W all need to GO. And then we can start on the massive repair and rebuilding.
I don’t know if there are offensive enough terms for these critters.
I thought it was odd that White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said, “…this was the right time to be giving more to his family…”. Usually the ‘more time with the family’ bullshit is used when somebody has fucked up real bad, and has been forced to resign in disgrace and/or go to jail. From all accounts Rove could stay in the Cheney administration undermining the remaining integrity of the executive branch until the bitter end. I wonder what’s up? I can’t imagine that his family would really want that goofy-looking, lying, fat, bald-headed fuck around the house.
On the Today show this morning, they said that if Administration officials stayed on past Labor Day, they were committed to staying through the end of the term, as an explanation for his departure now. Has anyone heard this idea? Has Bush simply asked his aides to commit to staying with him or is this some sort of official rule?
I’m kind of partial to “Axis of Weasels” myself.
He’s not gone… You can’t kill Rove. You need to destroy his phylactery.
My feelings exactly. BFD. Everyone can dance a happy dance if you want, but Bush is still in the WH until Jan '09. And Rove isn’t going to be pulling out the rocking chair just yet.
And the “macaca” thing is just too whacky not to comment on. The fact that you, Tuckerfan, know it’s a racial slur is all that matters. Had one of our right wing posters called someone else “macaca”, I have no doubt he’d be dumped on immediately, as well he should be, and probably by you. Hypocrite.
Does this mean I can’t call my neice “Monkey” anymore?
If anything this move has me even more concerned. He ain’t gonna stop pulling the puppet strings, but at least before there was some semblense of rules that he had to play by. Now there’s nothing. So he goes into his dungeon and tinkers with the country from unseen places, out of sight and out of mind.
I rather force him to come out in the light of day every so often.
Jeepers–Rowling calls 'em horcruxes, now I see they’ve got another name as well. We need some intense enchantment-fu for this shit!
(is it me, or does phylactery sound vaguely dirty?)
No, but “horcrux” sure does!
Has anybody here seen Donald Rumsfeld?
Can you promise me he’s gone?
He killed a lot of soldiers,
But it seems he got off scott-free.
You know, I’m just glad to hear he’s gone.
Anybody here seen Scooter Libby?
Can you promise me he’s gone?
He leaked classified secrets,
But it seems he got off scott-free.
You know, I’m just glad to hear he’s gone.
Anybody here seen Karl Rove?
Can you promise me he’s gone?
He told a lot of lies,
But it seems he got off scott-free.
You know, I’m just glad to hear he’s gone.
Didn’t you hate the things that they stood for?
Didn’t they cause a lot of shit for you and me?
But we’ll be free
Some day soon, and it’s a-gonna be one day …
Anybody here seen George Bush?
Can you tell me when he’ll be gone?
I can’t wait until he’s kicked out of the White House
Like Karl, Scooter, and Don
There are lots of mourning doves throughout the great plains and desert southwest, and are what anyone who hunts in those areas mean when they say “dove”…not the albino birds released at weddings.