Karl Rove Blasts Nancy Pelosi For Saying She Could Have Arrested Rove 'Any Given Day'

[FarCenter]

Former White House advisor Karl Rove shot back at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi late Wednesday for saying she could have arrested Rove "any given day." Rove told Fox News's Greta Van Susteren that Pelosi was "absolutely dead wrong."

"She sounds a little bit like Inspector Clouseau," Rove said. "I'm sure she had a good laugh, and it's nice to know that she dreams of slapping me in her own personal jail, but didn't have any authority to do it."

Pelosi's comments were sparked by the House Oversight Committee's majority vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress after his refusal to turn over classified documents on the botched Fast and Furious gun-running scandal.

But Rove insisted on Fox News that although he was also held in contempt by the House Judiciary committee for not revealing White House deliberations in 2007, the House never voted on the resolution, so Pelosi would have "been up the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/karl-rove-nancy-pelosi-inspector-clouseau-fast-furious-contempt-2012-6

[Gothmog]

1. Karl is being Karl, i.e. he is lying

Yes, Speaker Pelosi would have to first submit the issue to the entire House before she could arrest Karl but only an idiot would think that she could not get the votes to pass such a resolution. Once the House adopted the resolution, then Speaker Pelosi would have been authorized to arrest Rove.

Rove is in effect saying that he doubts that Speaker Pelosi could get the voters to pass such a resolution. Given that Rove is still hated, I doubt that Speaker Pelosi would have had any trouble here getting the votes to put Rove into jail if she was willing to push for such a resolution .

[FarCenter]

2. The margin in the 110th Congress was about 235 to 199 in 2008.

[Gman]

3. Pelosi had mercy on Rove

and he does not appreciate it.