Karl Rove lamely attempts to defend Bush's approval ratings
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Dec 02, 2008 7:00pmKarl Rove, the "architect" of the George W. Bush presidency, appeared this morning on the TODAY show to talk about President-elect Obama's transition team and offered perhaps the weakest "defense" of George Bush's almost universal unpopularity. According to Rove, who for some reason is still lauded by the villagers as some sort of political genius, the problem is not with Bush and all the terrible decisions he's made, but rather with the American people who have simply become "tired" after eight long years of disastrous GOP rule. The fun begins at 4:10.
Lauer: "President Bush said in an interview recently that he's 'sure some of the vote for Barack Obama were a repudiation of Republicans' and he said 'I'm sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me.' He's leaving office with dismal approval rating. What went wrong? You were the architect of this administration in many ways. What went wrong."
Rove: "Well, first of all, let's look at what went right. [..] Look, at the end of eight years -- Republicans or Democrats...when they've had the White House -- people tire of it."
Yes, Karl, because if President Bush had actually done, you know, a good job of governing this country, people would still hate him. I understand that Rove wants to deny the fact that he is primarily responsible for creating this monster, but now should really be the time for serious introspection.
And don't even get me started on the whole "George W. Bush liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans" nonsense. Sure Saddam was deposed, but look at what has filled that vacuum. Not to mention also the incredible cost in American blood and treasure expended. This guy really does "create his own reality."
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I can see how he earned the nickname "Turd Blossom".
I refuse to listen to someone who shoud be in jail!
Of course, old Turd
BlossomRove earned his "genius" rep how exactly?He was the mastermind of Bush's 2000 campaign? Oh, the one where Bush came in second?
Most political geniuses get their reps from leading campaigns that "win" without judicial interference. You know, the campaigns where your guy gets more votes?
Sum of de time
etc.
Matt Lauer was semi-witty and quick with responses to Rove. Damn "gotcha" media.
Yes, dead tired.
He's one of the key players in the Plame outing, not to mention numerous other nefarious activities with which he was actively involved.
NBC should be ashamed of themselves.
Heh. NBC is in it for one thing only - money.
We DID liberate a bunch of those icky brown people, I mean Iraqi's...of their lives.
Heck of a job, Bushie.
While George played the role of the WIZZARD... little fat Karl was the one over in the corner, behind the curtain, pulling the strings. THANK GOD that moment has passed. Karl will, however, be remembered for the center piece of just about every campaign he touched... CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF HIS OPPONENT. Some legacy!
While George played the role of the WIZZARD... little fat Karl was the one over in the corner, behind the curtain, pulling the strings...while he sat on Dick Cheney's lap. "Stop poking me with that thing."
Defending W is a lot like defending poop in a birdbath that someone just made.
As for the TB, Karl Rove, how much longer is he going to be elusive in getting away with fabricating intelligence to go to war? Is there any actual hard evidence out there that can really incriminate him for a warrent in his arrest, or even a citizen's arrest?
Sy Hersh claims that he has Bush insiders lined up around the block ready to spill their guts on this whole outfit. They're just waiting for Obama to be sworn in, then the fun will begin.
The revelations about BushCo criminality will begin gushing out. And who knows, maybe even the Pigman will get swept up in a torrent of truth and justice.
Why would Bush insiders jeopardize their retirement?
I can hardly wait to see the boooshies in the season's new color - yellow, as in jumpsuit!
What a loathsome, repulsive excuse for a human being.
Sam Sieder summed it up for me when he said something like: "Rove looked at Bush and thought 'Could I make him president? Pity he didn't ask 'Should I make him president.'"
A true product of the 'generation of swine'.
Bush's war has liberated over 1 million Iraqis from Existence, which exceeds the number of Iraqis killed under Saddam. I wish the MSM would point that out. Instead they point the camera at one of the foxes to ask him how the defense of the hen house went.
I had an email discussion with a conservative about that. He insisted that groups like Amnesty Int'l were sticking with the 300,000 figure that they had estimated for Hussein killing Iraqis for political reasons. I pointed out that US soldiers have uncovered enough corpses to account for only around 5,000. He replied that it was too dangerous to undig all of those graves with all of those booby traps and whatnot. I'm like "Um, isn't that what the specialty that used be called "sappers" are for? Isn't that sort of thing why they exist?" We came across a piece on a grave containing about 50 corpses and he was like "See? See?"
fat.head.criminal.
Goering had all sorts of nice things to say about the Fuhrer and his friends, too. They all ended up biting on cyanide or swinging from short ropes. Ask Rove which it will be for him! Ask him! Ask him if he can mount a defense for millions maimed, killed or displaced in Iraq for the entertainment of the boy fuhrer and his industrial sponsors. Ask him if he has the guts to shout his last sieg heils from the gallows like a real fascist or if he is going to take the coward's way out. Ask him.
You could probably get about 100 lbs of soap out of it, once Justice was performed. Guy is one huge tub of lard. You could sell the bars on eBay and give the proceeds to the Veterans Administration. He'd curse the act of charity from his private suite in hell, the sniveling dog.
I have soap making experience... we can get some pretty penny for Rove's soap in the boutique circuit.
Well, he is slimey like bad soap.
"Look, at the end of eight years -- Republicans or Democrats...when they've had the White House -- people tire of it."
Yes, people were also so tired of Clinton after 8 years that they gave him the highest end-of-term approval rating of any president ever.
Is it just me or is Rove looking extra Rovian today? Perhaps the look comes from having one's head up one's butt. Or he could be developing Martini cheeks. I think maybe he would feel a lot better if he gave up on his silly arguments and admitted that his administration cheated everyone and failed everyone miserably for eight years - that he's now learned that cheaters never prospher, and fighting and killing only makes things worse.
I seem to remember something about a subpoena. Amazing.
but he fled the country when the subpoena was served. Needed some vacation near Georgia (not the region, the country), right before the hostilities between Georgia and Russia started.
That waskaly Wove! Always in the middle of "incredible" coincidences...
Well, the problem with Karl's statement is that Clinton's job approval rating actually increased during his final two years in office. That is, the most recent two-term president prior to Bush experienced increased job approval ratings. Although, to be fair, Clinton's personal approval rating did drop with the Lewinsky affair.
Rove is just one of those guys...I can't even look at him he disgusts me so much. If this country does NOT in some way shape or form, acknowledge and then prosecute criminal charges against Rove, Bush, Cheney and Wolfowitz (among others...Douglas F., Novak, etc.)we will have effectively proven that this country is not the "city on the hill" much less even a functioning ethical democracy. It will be an open sore on the belly of this country that no one will publicly acknowledge but will fester and grow and eventually be exposed and serve not just as an ugly reminder of our failings as a country but also will be one of the seeds of it's own destruction. Not to mention it sets a precedent for future transgressions. If Bush and co. can get away with murder, lying and thievery, who's going to stop future presidents from doing the same? To say we are a country of laws and that no one is above them. To revere America as a beacon of liberty, justice and freedom and then to turn the other way on crimes committed by this administration is unconscionable as it is a true betrayal of these values. Is it too late for this country?
Why is Rove(TURD BLOSSOM) still free and not in a Orange Jump suit with Legg Irons. I guess it is still the same old thing the COROPRATE CONTROLED MEDIA and the Weak leaders that are in charge of the SENATE and HOUSE all they can say is MY FRIENDS the REPUBLICANS. Look at the shape Bush and Crime Family have left this country and Bush denies he had any thing to do with what has HAPPENED FOR EIGHT (8) years and Rove and the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA have taking this COUNTRY to the BRINK of desastor. What next Sare PALIN as PRESIDENT the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA is out to make it so. Sara palin as the next PERSIDENt any one wish to BET. Angry yes, for all I ever hear is that there is two sides, NO the TRUTH has only ONE SIDE.
Agree!
So sick of that Baby Huey lardburger...
I see Karl has a new hair do. Is he trying to copy Mohammed Atta or is he preparing to sit for a CPA exam?
What do they expect old Turd Blossom to say? How about something like, "Yes, I'm well aware that I'm largely responsible for the most disasterous presidency in American history and the downfall of the Republican Party, and I'm sure I'll rot in hell for my evil ways". That would be the day. These guys will make excuses until hell freezes over. It sickens me to even look at that little pudgy pasty dough boy. He is one ugly human being, both on the inside and out.
karl rove creating his own reality?? hahaha trust me reality had absolutely nothin to do with it.delusional ideology is more like it
..needs to do another Holiday video for the internets.
Barney could epitomize his master's presidency on camera by dropping a pile under the White House tree and peeing on Rove's leg. He could also bite another reporter.
Every day the swine'ish Rove looks more and more like a pig that is ready for a trip to the packing house. What a disgusting piece of filth he is.
Bushie, Lady Laura, Cheney, Rove....................
Can you feel the SPIN?
There is no reset button on the truth. We know he's lying when he said that the US wouldn't have invaded Iraq if the intel said there were no WMDs.
They cooked the books and fired/harassed anyone who did tell the truth.
They sold this war to allies and allied TV/media networks to rev up the nation into a resource war that should never have been fought.
And now he wants to be a revisionist...too bad b/c we won't forget.
Not as long as this blog exists, we won't.
Well said. All of it.
Now we get to hear dubya and his followers tell the tall tale of his great works.( That took alot for me to write that, no, really).
Now, it was the faulty intelligence's fault. That and Tenets fault.
I have know idea how long or how much rewriting of history we are going to have to go through.
But the last time I checked, the buck stops in the Oval Office.
Not to mention, " I'm the Decider".
They must think the country is made up of dumbasses.
Sadly, they're half right.
He has to say all this. He even has to believe it. He can't say anything else. If he even gives a whiff that he thinks his planning caused part of this he would never work in politics again.
It's hard to know who is more to blame - Cheney, Rove, or Bush. I still can't believe Bush was given another 4 years. What a waste. The Republicans had a golden opportunity. Instead they lied us into war, focused on Shiavo and gay marriage instead of what were really the problems in the country, and bought into the whole "less oversight and regulation is more" philosophy -- the philosophy that got us into this mess. It still boggles my mind to see clips of how the US and the rest of the world celebrated when Obama won. It was like everyone felt there had been an evil administration in charge, a dark cloud over the whole world. It was like the end of World War 2.
Personally, I was sick of GWB on January 21, 2001.
of a human being. What is it that you "white ameikans" see in him that is so appealing to 50 percent of you!
Perhaps you should ask that question at RedSate, Polipundit, LGF's.
And don't forget, in 2000, Latinos/ Hispanics voted for boosh in large numbers.
People in glass houses and all that.
I know what I am all about. You on the other hand are are reactionary pretending to be other than conservative.
I love the fake republican outrage.
It's like everything else republican FAKE!
The whole party is made up of lies, bullshit, smoke and mirrors.
Fake morality, fake honor, fake honesty, fake integrity, everything about the modern day republican party is a fake. Particularly conservatisum! republicans = fake conservatisum. Everything about the republican party is a LIE!!!!
People that was over 8 years ago. Compaired to the crimes of the bush administration the mark rich thing looks like a ticket for not stopping at a stop sign.
Compaired to bushes looting of America, the hundreds of thousands of dead people millions of refugees and god knows how many wounded crippled and maimed.
WHO gives a damn about mark rich, When you have so much more serious tasks at hand?
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Cheat every possible way you can think of. Then think of more ways to cheat, and cheat some more. Oh, and don't forget to accuse your opponent of cheating.
Pure fucking genius.
$#@%!!! I'm calling BS on that! Both Reagan and Clinton would easily have won third terms. Granted, Reagan was getting pretty fuzzy near the end of his tenure and Clinton hadn't come up with any way to deal with the press after his eight, but notice that nobody was calling for dramatic change in the 2000 election. Both Bush & Gore were offering "more of the same" for the very simple reason that that's what people wanted.
That fat fuckin fuck rove!
I can't watch this sack of shit, and I certainly can't listen to his twisted lies and logic. That's food for his brown shirts and brain dead.....one and the same I guess really.
A song written for Karl
Why isn't Karl Rove in an orange jumpsuit?
MSM is pathetic. Who cares about Rove's asinine opinion on jack!
ASK ROVE ABOUT HIS CRIMES!!!
it is interesting that karl rove is able to see that eric holder may have been involved in an inappropriate action when he was tangentially involved in the pardon of rich as a deputy AG during the clinton administration. yet, when rove thumbed his nose up at congressional subpoenas in the investigation of outing valerie plame and in obtaining information on white house communications, he has always acted as if he were as pure as the driven snow. he's a disgusting fat white pig and he broke the law on many occasions and championed a brand of politics that degraded the american system. and, the really sad thing is that he is still free to make lots of money in the media when he should be serving a long prison sentence for all the laws he has violated.
Isn't that traitor heading for prison due to numerous Federal indictments? Why is he still out walking freely among the rich white elite and appearing on television shows? Why isn't he in prison? Why isn't he standing up in front of a firing squad, for that matter?
And what was that again?
EVER???
Really, Rovie. People tire of presidents? You don't say?
Doesn't look true with Clinton's numbers. Meanwhile, Bush's numbers read like the stock market the past few months. Stupid argument trying to prove a stupid point.
We tire of just ONE president right now.
I have noticed that as of late, Rove appears like a pudgy Napoleonic figure, defeated and deflowered. His comments, writings, and spin have lost all their vigor. His rhetoric is so passe that one wonders who he is trying to convience. The base needs reassurance, but no conviencing. The GOP is frankly not only tired of him, indeed they have disowned him as a Bush blight not reflective of the GOP entity; and they secretly hate and still fear him. The America that voted Obama in; well, theres on love there to be found; other words come to mind.
So who is Rove addressing his rhetoric to as of late. His revisionist attempts are more aptly sad if not humerous and resonate nothing but silence and awe. Rove is bascially speaking to his sociopathic self.
He seeds lines of defense for potential legal needs. His rhetoric refects his feable spin at history for his won purposes (not Bush's). His soon to be redundant revisions will not resonate in the future either.
His "one step ahead of the others" claim to fame, has come to a screeching halt.His timing is off, his rhythm is as dorky as his looks. He's impending future is racing towards him (probably in the form of a pardon), yet in the process; he has been found out, used up, and discarded. He is a stain in American history and will be revered as such for eternity.
but forcing myself to watch and listen to this criminal would be like a kind of self abuse, and I refuse to engage in that.
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