Rove resigned the same reason Rummy resigned - off the radar.

[Rex]

Rummy still works for Cheney and now is off the radar planning who knows what for the people he hates (that would be us here on DU). And Karl? Karl is doing the same thing 'for the sake of his family' and jumping off the radar so the real evil shit can be planned and no one will be able to follow the crime scene tracks.

Sometimes bad publicity is just that for evil people.

[madison]

1. I think they found the proverbial "smoking gun" tying Rove ...

I think I have figured out why Karl Rove is leaving the White House NOW, instead of at the end of Bush's term.

For years, Rove used the Republican National Committee's e-mail server in order to HIDE his nefarious and possibly illegal dealings and doings.

The RNC claimed to have erased all Rove's e-mails ... so the senate and House committees investigating who at the White House was directing the firings of the eight U.S. Attorneys -- the ones who were unwilling to bend the laws to help Republicans win elections -- would be thwarted in their efforts.

Senator Leahy famously said that no e-mails were erased forever and that he would find them.

Find them he did.

And Democratic senate aides have been poring over them ever since.

I think they found the proverbial "smoking gun" tying Rove to the firings and identifying him as the mastermind behind the whole snarky business.

I believe the Democrats informed Rove they had the goods on him and, after the August recess, were prepared to go after him aggressively.

I think Rove, seeing the handwriting on the wall and the revelations of his criminality staring him in the face, made the Democrats in Congress a deal: "I'll go now, and you will drop the investigation into my (Rove's) actions."

Anyway, that's my take on this whole mysterious business.

I think it is a deal to cover up Rove's activities.

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SEE also: "Karl Rove, Top Strategist, Is Leaving the White House" at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/washington/13cnd-rove.html

[katmondoo]

3. I agree. It makes the most sense

[Johonny]

4. He's also pretty useless now

Karl Rove, President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist-

But how likely is the anti-gay strategy going to work now that people understand THEY AREN'T BETTER OFF.

How likely is the talking up the economy going to work now that people understand THEY AREN'T BETTER OFF.

How likely is the talking up the war going to work now that people understand THEY AREN'T BETTER OFF.

The president has been riding this pony for all it's worth, now the tricks just aren't working because they never really had a strategy for the long term. The plan was to do and say anything to get elected and once in office to do everything to stay in office. Mission accomplished, but he had no plan to do anything to make Americans lives better. And now in year 7 a large part of America is looking for a person interested in their actual problems and not Rove's short term scare them up tactics.

[OzarkDem]

5. If the Dems had "the goods" on Rove

why did they capitulate and give Bush what he wanted on the FISA bill.

Dems in Congress are operating as if they have no tools to use in negotiating with the WH. They're caving on everything. If they had the "goods" on Rove, one would hope they could use it more effectively as a bargaining tool.

[madison]

6. I don't claim to

know anything.

It's just a guess.

[Rex]

7. That could very well be it.

We must all remember - these evil people don't resign willingly, EVER. I also wonder if this is Roves grandest distraction, right before they do something bad to us.

I hope the Dems didn't give him immunity or something to keep him off the books. I still think this is an 'off radar' move to keep the public from knowing anything about Karl.

Look at Donald - still works at the Pentagon and no one ever talks about him now, what does he do?

What is Rove planning in Texas?

[The Count]

2. Add Karen Hughes, Richard perle to the list of behind the curtains "family men"

this administration uses.