Chris Floyd: Panic Attack: Rove Packs Bags in Big-Time Bushist Bug-Out

[babylonsister]

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2165/1/

Panic Attack: Rove Packs Bags in Big-Time Bushist Bug-Out
Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 13 August 2007

From the Wall Street Journal:

Karl Rove, President Bush's longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, he said in an interview with Paul Gigot, editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page...."I just think it's time," Mr. Rove said in the interview. "There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family." Mr. Rove and his wife have a home in Ingram, Texas, and a son who attends college in nearby San Antonio.

The announcment that Karl Rove is going to resign -- precipitiously, in a matter of days, obviously in a great hurry to get the hell out of Dodge -- must mean there is one hell of an indictment coming down the pike (or else one hell of a backroom deal has been cut to avoid an indictment. If that's the case, it probably involves the politicization of the Justice Department: an egregious thing to be sure, but more in the nature of a "technicality" when compared to Rove's roles in conspiring to launch a war of aggression, subvert the electoral process and install an unconstitutional authoritarian regime. Of course, prosecuting Rove for the Justice scandal (or even the Plamegate scandal, which is another possibility) would be akin to nailing Al Capone on tax evasion charges: not really the fullest measure of justice -- but at least he'd be behind bars for awhile.

Naturally, anything we say at this point would be pure speculation. But certainly there is much more to this sudden, panicky departure than Rove's desire to "spend more time with his family." (Uh, Karl -- when your son has already gone away to college, it's too late to spend more time with him, unless you're going to hang around his dorm or something, which would be pretty creepy. If "spending time with your family" was such a priority, perhaps you shouldn't have spent 24/7 servicing George W. Bush throughout the entirety of your son's childhood, eh?)

This hankering for the family hearth is of course a transparent lie, like most of the drivel that issues from Rove's mouth for public consumption. And he will surely continue to service George's needs 24/7, despite this "retirement." But again, such a headlong departure can only betoken a feverish desire by the White House to avoid some kind of major legal heat.

Or has Larry Flynt come up with the goods on some unseemly proclivities of the porcine counselor? Would it be irresponsible to speculate on such lurid matters? It would be irresponsible not to.
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[TomInTib]

1. I'm leaning to the Flynt angle.

That fucker just has to be a perv sociopath.

[malaise]

3. I think it's Ney's

wired Deputy. I smell the 2004 Ohio elections and Abramoff.

[Venus Dog]

4. I have to agree with you

These guys have broken every law known to mankind as well as put the entire world at the precipice of hell, murdered millions, stolen bazillion of dollars and elections, destroyed the US Constitution and bankrupt our entire nation for generations to come - and gotten away with it with the help of our media. No one cares.

There is one thing, though, that the media can't even make pretty - and that is perverted sex. It's got to be more than the old run-of-the-mill Clintonesque married man having an affair with a consensual, legal-aged woman, or even occasional transgressions with female prostitutes. If it were that, Karl would just blow it off like Newt and Ghouliani does and that other diaper repuke.

No -- this has GOT to be something pretty perverse. My money would be more along on the Jeff Gannon spectrum and the parties, etc that have been rumored for so long. Somebody's got the goods on karl now and it must be pretty damn good.

Even the excuse is so lame and sounds like it was made up really fast without much thought - spend more time with your son who's going off to college? And Monday morning to boot. Somebody's got somebody's balls in a vise right now. That's my take -- it's called good old-fashioned blackmail.

[az chela]

2. Maybe he has some terrorist plot set up and doesnt want to

be around when it happens

[lovuian]

5. Rove just did what he was told but he did it

leaving lots and lots of messy endings

[Cha]

6. rove's snout was extacted from

the DC trough for reasons yet to be confirmed by the netizens..it's a cinch the US corporatemedia won't give us any clues.

[arewenotdemo]

7. "Rove's snout extracted from trough"

:rofl:

[Cha]

8. I forgot the "r"..thanks for

being exact! :)