I’d like to think of this as a falling out among thieves. Rove is distancing himself form George Bush while Bush is distancing himself from Karl Rove - both are thinking it’s the other one who’s giving off that smell.
And I have to agree that “macaca” was off-target and should have been left unsaid.
Bye, bye you Halfrican-American!
I said this in the GD thread: there is some news about Karl that cannot be avoided, coming down the pike. He’s getting gone while the getting is good, so that no one can say he resigned as a response, because he was already going. Best bet: you’ll find out late Friday afternoon, while all the reporters are at Happy Hour.
Karl officially resigns on my birthday. I couldn’t ask for a better birthday present.
–glaring around-- There is no need to drag handy into this !!
:dubious:
I picture him at Diebold, for some reason.
Actually, this sort of scares me. I wish it had been Cheney. I get the impression that Rove was what passes for a voice of reason against some of Cheney’s ideas, like the sabre-rattling toward Iran.
Tuckerfan, concede. I could see calling George Allen macaca, because the irony of it. But Rove wasn’t really involved in the whole Allen thing other than association. Sorry man. You’re in the wrong.
Wow, Rove’s moving all the way down to Texas? He’ll have to get some longer strings.
Whoop-de-doo. Richard Nixon resigned on my birthday.
Which was last week. And none of you weasels sent a card. Or money.
“They killed a lot of people
And they’re safe: the good, they die young”
On preview, a tip to Little Nemo’s complete song.
Everyone else, ONE.
Tuckerfan, ZERO.
Give it up guy. I know you’re not an idiot, so maybe it’s all about the first people who called you on the macaca comment – you are loath to concede anything to certain other posters.
But you were wrong, and defending your position at all costs as justifed in the context of your post is braingluttonish. 
Confess, CONFESS!
Watch Uncle Karl get a huuuuge book deal from some right-wing publishing house to write his memoirs, in which he attempts to justify the disaster that is GW’s presidency. Watch him appear constantly on Fox News to promote his book. Watch his book quickly end up in the remainder bin at Barnes and Noble.
I’m going to go out on a limb and take a guess here - it’ll all be the liberals’ fault.
Oh no. God was subjecting them to a series of tests, and they will be vindicated.
Later. Sometime in the indefinite but not too far away future. You will all see.
Memoirs are a genteel way of either bribing public officials or supplying a golden parachute without fingerprints. A longstanding scam.
Senator Suckazz offers a collection of his essays to Remainder House The Seven Freedom’s of America’s Liberty (not to be confused with N. Gingrich’s The Seven Liberties of America’s Freedoms). Its stultifying prose is an effective neurotoxin, and its covers are too far apart, but no matter! The book will sell! And the author’s cut of the proceeds would make Tom Clancy’s agent gnash his teeth with bitter envy.
Non-fiction books are educational! And if somebody with more money than sense buys 10,000 copies to distribute to his grateful employees, he gets a tax break because non-fiction books are educational! And several thousand dollars of International Widget money finds its way to Senator Suckazz, who is unlikely to forget the civic virtue and public mindedness of Intl. Widget. But its not a bribe! Nothing like it.
It is also a useful means of supplying golden parachutes.
I confess!
Am I allowed to be upset by this news? Because I am.
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Good, because your whacky terminology has given Martin Fuckface Hyde ammunition he can use to derail the thread. Instead of browsing in uncomfortable silence a thread analyzing and recounting the immeasurable damage Mr. Rove has done to American politics, Martin Fuckface Hyde has quite reasonably seized upon your weirdly misplaced epithet as an opportunity to change the subject, and many others have followed his lead. Why anybody would voluntarily give Martin Fuckface Hyde any rhetorical weaponry, however disconnected from the topic at hand, is an enduring mystery; his dialectical quiver is basically empty unless somebody hands him a fistful of ready-made arrows. The best thing you can do is to say “yeah, sorry, got carried away, it was a dumb joke that totally fell flat, not sure what I was thinking, apologies, hey isn’t that Rove a jackass,” and then shut up on the subject. You can’t take the weapon away entirely, but you can dull its edge significantly. I have no doubt that Martin Fuckface Hyde will continue to swing it, because he is, after all, a fuckface, but let him marginalize himself instead of giving him a means of using your own bizarrely inapposite terminology to drag you off to his own cul-de-sac of fuckfaced irrelevance.
Well now I’m confused - I thought it was God who appointed George Bush as President.