Bush's Brain heeds the call of home

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http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20070815_Karen_Heller___Bushs_Brain_heeds_the_call_of_home.html

By Karen Heller
Inquirer Columnist

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Whenever a person wholly devoted to work says he's leaving his post to spend more time with the family, it's time to count the spoons.

And possibly, the subpoenas.
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Consider Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff, President Bush's political adviser, his brain, his architect, his boy genius, his - as the president puts it so endearingly - turd blossom.

This came as a shock after 61/2 years in Washington, D.C., even during the dog days of August.

First, that Rove had a Mrs. Rove.

Second, that Rove and Mrs. Rove found time to have a little Rove.

Little Rove, as it turns out, is 18 years old and attends college.

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I love Karen Heller when they let her out of writing puff and stuff for the "ladies" section.

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1. Okay I'll go out on a limb here

lil karl will not join the military.

[rodeodance]

2. he never found time to graduate from college?

This from a man who was so busy running the College Republicans that he never found time to graduate from college?

[rodeodance]

3. A fitting analogy. As you may recall in Melville's classic, the

Rove is leaving with more drama if for less obvious reasons. "I realize that some of the Democrats are Captain Ahab and I'm the great white whale," Rove said Monday. "I noticed the other day some Democratic staffers were quoted calling me 'the big fish.' Well, I'm Moby Dick and they're after me."

A fitting analogy. As you may recall in Melville's classic, the work-obsessed Captain Ahab drowns. The entire crew of the Pequod drowns, felled by the great white whale. Everyone dies in the end except the whale and Ishmael, possibly so someone's left to narrate the epic tale, the literary equivalent of a ghost writer.

Often, these "spend more time with the family" decisions last a matter of weeks, until another job presents itself, one with better pay and fewer hours, a board of directors position, a lecture tour, an undemanding teaching post, and the big shot can take flight from the Barcalounger.

In the meantime, it's best to count those spoons.

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4. Letter to the editor, next day

The family Rove

Columnist Karen Heller expressed wonder that former presidential political adviser Karl Rove "had a Mrs. Rove" and that there's "a little Rove" ("Bush's Brain heeds the call of home," Aug. 15).
That's telling. What it tells is that the liberal media have spent so much time and print vilifying Rove as some sort of sinister force within the Bush administration that they are surprised he is married and is a father. To report that would make him seem human, contrary to media's desired image of him as a political evil-doer.

Philip J. Katauskas
Media


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