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White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Fri Jun 24, 2005 at 12:05:22 PM EST
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The White House says Karl Rove was right in bashing liberals over 9/11.

"I think Karl was very specific, very accurate, in who he was pointing out," communications director Dan Bartlett said, contending the comments weren't aimed at all Democrats.

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    White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement | 14 comments (14 topical)
    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#1)
    by Mreddieb on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:30 PM EST
    To me this only prooves that Dems are like Charlie brown and his relationship with lucy(Rep). Every time she holds out the football and lures him she pulls it out from under him. When are The Democrats going to learn to Stand up to their attacks? I frankly think they are laughing them selves drunk. They will never apologize GET IT. This is why nobody expects it from them but like charlie we Democrats always keep trying to kick that ball and end up on our asses!

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:30 PM EST
    Ed, we're in the middle of a violent coup, and Rove and his gang have pulled out all the stops to intimidate, threaten, and outright attack the Dems in Congress. While I agree that 'the Dems' ought to fight a better fight, I don't agree that they are cartoon characters for being ill-equiped to handle ANTHRAX attacks by the Executive -- kinda unprecedented. Because this coup is the result of massive vote fraud and corruption, based on a preconceived Grand Purpose of conquering the Middle East, abetted by an unprecedented domestic attack that Dick Cheney spent two decades opening us up to, it is a prickly problem that is the largest domestic crisis since the Civil War. Meanwhile, the public wants to be free to mock the Dems who are supposed to magically put right what the Rs have taken by force. It's like trusting the Caiman to take the man across the river and not eat him.

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:30 PM EST
    Of course they aren't going to apologize and they are going to obfuscate. The point thought is that they just called a large portion of Americans a bunch of cowards and no matter how much spin they put on it, like Rove wasn't singling out Dems(and the jerk was and can't fess up to it) or that it was the truth about "liberals", Rove put his foot in his mouth. I do believe the citizens are tired of hacks like him making insane comments like he did. I know I am sick of it, but at least this will be yet another example of just how detached Republicans(I have quite a few conservative friends that are disgusted by Rove's comments so I won't degnify his stance by labeling it with the c word) are from the rest of society and reality in general. Any Democrat who is saying that there shouldn't be an impassioned response to this latest outrage should be run out of town on a rail. I am beyond enabling these DINO's in allowing the Preznit and his toadies to say any inflamatory thing they want and not pay any political price for it. 2006 can't get here quick enough.

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#4)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:30 PM EST
    ...oh, yeah. Image is everything: Durbin caves and cries (how can a sensitive guy protect you from terrorists?) Cheney and Rove and everybody in the administration hide their fear and anger and express their power as an abuse of... well, everybody: the bad guys, the guys aren't good, they guys who aren't good enough. Did Saddam Hussein have anything to do with 9-11-2001? This administration's myopic foreign policy can't (or won't) discern the difference (the Cubans must be so pissed the Iraqi's jumped to the front of the line*). * yeah, I've said it before... but if Cheney and Rove can repeat themselves than so can I

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#5)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:31 PM EST
    Rove's words reveal a remarkably tone-deaf attitude. Haven't we just learned from recent polls that the majority of Americans think the war in Iraq was a bad idea? And now Rove boasts his team thought of it?

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#6)
    by Kitt on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:31 PM EST
    Remember, this is just a smoke screen. This is beside 'the point.'

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:31 PM EST
    Now I know why so many people tune out when it comes to politics, I mean, who the hell really wants to listen to this fat turd of a man charaterize an entire group of people he's probably never even had one decent conversation with in his life? It's like getting stuck in the living room when your dad comes home drunk and angry about god knows what and all you want to do is just get the hell to your room so that you don't have to listen to him anymore.

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#8)
    by Patrick on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:31 PM EST
    Does Democrat = liberal? If not, then clearly the statement from the White House is accurate.

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#10)
    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:31 PM EST
    Rove put political chum into the water and attracted all the fish he intended to. He was just tossing red meat to the Conservative party of NY (and who would have thought that there was such a thing) but it ended up attracting some bigger fish than was intended. Who would have thought that such astute politicians such as Shumer and Clinton would have risen to such sh*tty bait. Rove did just what he intended to do and that was to sucker Democratic "centrists" to show their real political stripes despite their faux moves to the center. The Dems have a lot to re-learn about politics. Today I recieved a letter from the DNC telling me what a leader I was in the local Dem party. I have never been a registered member of any party for thirty years. Who thought I was a Dem leader? Well if I gave them $35 then I would be one of them according to their literature. If these guys want to run the country they at least have got to get the whole mailing list thing down.

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#11)
    by Andreas on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:31 PM EST
    Democrats on their knees In staging such provocations, the Bush administration counts on the spinelessness and impotence of the Democratic Party. Rove’s characterization of the liberals as inwardly sympathetic to terrorism and Al Qaeda is a slander. But his depiction of Democrats as cowardly and mealy-mouthed is apt when it comes to their role as the so-called opposition to the Bush administration. Senator Durbin’s blubbering apology on the Senate floor—retracting, for the second time, his comparison of Guantánamo to a Nazi or Stalinist concentration camp—was followed by Democratic bluster Thursday in response to Rove’s speech. None of the leading Democrats would call Rove’s speech what it was: an attack on democratic rights and an attempt to deny the legitimacy of political opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, they protested that there were no divisions between liberals and conservatives over the “war on terror.”
    White House aide Karl Rove witch-hunts Iraq war opponents By Patrick Martin, 25 June 2005

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#12)
    by Richard Aubrey on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:32 PM EST
    A number of people have commented that Rove's a genius. Now, in discussing this, the conservatives have a perfect excuse to haul out of the archives every lefty statement proving Rove was right. Many people may have forgotten these statements ("million Mogadishus", OBL builds daycare centers, etc) and now, THEY'RE BACK. Wonderful. Yes, Charlie Brown, indeed.

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#13)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:32 PM EST
    Many people may have forgotten these statements
    Not to brag too much but...in 1998, I predicted that if Bush became president, there would be a sequel to the Gulf War. I even made up a name for the possibility and called it "Oil War II, the Sequel: Son of Oil War". Why was this so predictable, and why are you so predictable, Richard Aubrey? The sad thing is that it all happened with the quiet consent of many Democrats. Except for some of the wild-eyed libs in the Party who knew better, and these are the people that Rove was referring to. The unbearable truth is that they were right and you and Rove are wrong. BTW...where is Bin Laden? Oh yeah, forgive me...that's irrelevant.

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:32 PM EST
    "Posted by jimcee: "He was just tossing red meat to the Conservative party of NY" NONSENSE. Rove is distracting attention from the WAR CRIMES and DOWNING STREET MATERIALS. Cheney kicked his ass and told him that it was HIS turn to take some heat. Wow, are they GUILTY of high crimes. It stinks so much that God Himself moved his Divine Throne from its place over the White House, just to get away from the smell of K Rove's pointed tail.

    Re: White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:33 PM EST
    Ernesto: "The sad thing is that it all happened with the quiet consent of many Democrats." What don't you get about ANTHRAX or Wellstone's death? What you call 'consent' is in fact COERCION. Should they be more brave? They are who they are, and MASSIVE vote-fraud and illicit midterm redistricting knocked their skids out from under them. Quite clearly, it is the Rs who can stop Bush, any day of the week. Why don't you save your sadness for their total cowardice and greed.

    White House Backs Karl Rove's Statement | 14 comments (14 topical)