August 13, 2007
Bush’s Brain Bails!
The Beeb delivers the wonderful news:Top White House aide Rove resigns
Top White House aide Karl Rove, seen by many as the brains behind George W Bush’s presidency, has said he will resign at the end of August.
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“Obviously, it’s a big loss to us,” White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino told the Associated Press news agency. “He’s a great colleague, a good friend, and a brilliant mind. He will be greatly missed.”
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Mr Rove has been accused of underhand political tactics since his teenage years. …
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Mr Rove told the Wall Street Journal that he had first floated the idea of leaving last year, but had delayed his departure when the Democrats took control of Congress.
He said he took a final decision to leave after White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten told aides that if they stayed after the end of August they would be obliged to stay in the administration until Mr Bush’s own departure in January 2009.
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He said he expected Mr Bush’s current poor ratings to improve, and that conditions in Iraq would get better as the military surge continued.
Adds CBS News:
Rove became one of Washington’s most influential figures during Mr. Bush’s presidency. He is known as a ruthless political warrior who has an encyclopedic command of political minutiae and a wonkish love of policy. Rove met Mr. Bush in the early 1970s, when both men were in their 20s.
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Rove also predicted conditions in Iraq would improve and that the Democrats would nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, calling her “a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate.”
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Attorneys for Libby told jurors at the onset of his trial that Libby was the victim of a conspiracy to protect Rove. Details of any save-Rove conspiracy were promised but never materialized.
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Rove … was not indicted after testifying five times before the grand jury, occasionally correcting misstatements he made in his earlier testimony.
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