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azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 10:09 AM Apr 2013

Karl Rove on Bush legacy: “He got the big things right”

“He kept us safe after 9/11, he moved to modernize our tools, provide the tools to fight terror, he called terror for what it was, he tackled the big issues of trying to reform Social Security, Medicare, immigration, education,” Rove tells Politics Confidential, standing outside the new Bush library and museum.

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“I do believe that the Iraq War was the right thing to do and the world is a safer place for having Saddam Hussein gone,” says Rove, who points out that there was a “bipartisan consensus” that Hussein had WMD’s before the U.S. entered the war ten years ago.

On the topic of the 2008 financial crisis that resulted in the greatest U.S. economic recession since the Great Depression, he says President Bush is not at fault.

“I'll tell you what it is: it is a 20 year history of letting these two institutions get out of control,” says Rove.

Rove loosely faults those who let the country’s financial institutions get over leveraged, and specifically identifies Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and other Senate Democrats for threatening to veto a regulatory bill in 2005 that he says would have reined in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/karl-rove-bush-legacy-got-big-things-111551272.html

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Karl Rove on Bush legacy: “He got the big things right” (Original Post) azurnoir Apr 2013 OP
Karl Pigshit Rove: The One-Man Heavy Sigh. HughBeaumont Apr 2013 #1
at least he said "he kept us safe AFTER 9/11...". Before that, not so much. Cooley Hurd Apr 2013 #2
You tell 'em Turdblossom. He hired big men with big ideas, like you, right? leveymg Apr 2013 #3
Wha? City Lights Apr 2013 #4
Why isn't Karl Rove in prison? RC Apr 2013 #5
hey did you lose your house, your job, your life savings don't worry Johonny Apr 2013 #6

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
1. Karl Pigshit Rove: The One-Man Heavy Sigh.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 10:12 AM
Apr 2013

Listening to Repub revisionist history is like sitting through a marathon of An American Carol.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
2. at least he said "he kept us safe AFTER 9/11...". Before that, not so much.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 10:12 AM
Apr 2013

Of course, HIS foreign policy disasters are what the Tsaraevs named as reasons for their bombing spree.

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
5. Why isn't Karl Rove in prison?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 10:59 AM
Apr 2013

Start with his part in the election frauds in 2000. Then continue on to more of the same in 2004.

Johonny

(20,684 posts)
6. hey did you lose your house, your job, your life savings don't worry
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 11:04 AM
Apr 2013

he got the big things right. He got money out of your hands and into our rich friends hands.

What good is being save from terror when you have no job, home or expectations of a better future?

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