Thread: Karl Rove Resigns

If Karl Rove was innocent then he would not have left. The next is Gonzales. I am waiting for that one.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2538336&page=1


Why Did Rove Aide Resign?
Investigation Shows Susan Ralston Was Conduit Between Abramoff and White House By JAKE TAPPER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2006


Hours before the beginning of a three-day holiday weekend, the White House announced the resignation of Susan Ralston, a top aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove.

Just a week before, Ralston's name was mentioned 162 times in a 93-page congressional report on the influence wielded in the Bush White House by uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a convicted felon.

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The bipartisan House Government Reform Committee studied documents from Greenberg Traurig LLP, Abramoff's former lobbying firm -- billing records and other documents -- indicating that Abramoff and his team had made 485 lobbying contacts with White House officials over three years, 69 of which were with Ralston, who seemed to serve as a messenger between the Abramoff and White House camps.

Before coming to the White House, Ralston served as executive assistant to Abramoff. In her letter, dated Thursday but released to the media toward the end of the day today, Ralston wrote that "the time has come for me to pursue other opportunities."

She could not be reached for comment.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said the White House would let Ralston's letter speak for itself.

"We appreciate her years of able service and accept her judgment that it's appropriate to step down at this time," Perino said. "She did not want to be a distraction to the White House at such an important time and so we have accepted her resignation."

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, said in a statement that "It looks like the White House is trying to make Susan Ralston the scapegoat."

Waxman said the committee has unanswered questions "about the assistance that Ms. Ralston provided Mr. Abramoff from inside the White House."

"There are also many unanswered questions about the assistance that higher-ranking White House officials appeared to provide Mr. Abramoff," including former White House political director Ken Mehlman, who is now chairman of the Republican National Committee, Waxman added.

Abramoff billed his clients $24,930 for 186 dinners, lunches and breakfasts with White House officials between January 2001 and March 2004, the House committee concluded, and he provided tickets to various events for White House officials during that time as well. It is not known if anyone reimbused Abramoff for the gifts; White House employees are banned from accepting gifts worth more than $20 from lobbyists.

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ALIPAC NOTE: Karl Rove has been an architect of the Bush administrations pro Amnesty and Open Borders Agenda!

This is the second best news I have heard all year, after the amnesty crash and burn!

Now how can we get Kennedy and McCain to join him?

Originally Posted by Bowman

This is the second best news I have heard all year

It may - or it may not be.

Hmmmmm........what are Bush and his friends so worried about?

This Moron advised King George how to rule this land. He is such a liability to this administration because conservatives are going after the president and are considering impeachment to try and restore order to the conservative base. Out the door you go ... BTW... get rid of the man boobs ... it just looks nasty

Rove needs to go to jail for any and all things that is humanly possible. But the main reason is twisting and turning the US constitution but not quite breaking it (or did he) I am a conservative and I am fuming mad at this blatant corruption this man displays

Democrates do not want impeachment (King George is single handedly decimating the republican party) Whodathunkit The democrates are going to pick up mega independant votes because we can never / ever tolerate another Bush .... this party will completely collapse

Originally Posted by nntrixie

Originally Posted by jean

Heard a FOX commentator say maybe Rove will go help advise another Rep candidate for '08!
Rather doubt that!

If he is, he will be 'behind the scenes'.

These people don't leave the 'group'. They know too much and others know too much on them. He isn't gone - just out of signt.

I heard that too, he is power hungry in the sense that he likes to play the part of puppet master.

Oh, dear, oh dear.

There is no Republican Party and hasn't been for some time - there is no Democratic Party and hasn't been for some time. The two have formed an alliance and are working against us.

I don't for a moment believe this President is in any way afraid of impeachment or anything else.

This is simply a rearrangement - maybe he is needed to do some dirty work that can't be traced.

Rove departure seen as 'good news for conservatives'
Former Reagan adviser charges Bush 'architect' moved administration, GOP to left

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Posted: August 14, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern



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One of the architects of the Reagan Revolution calls the announcement of Karl Rove's departure from the White House "good news for conservatives."

"We may have a more conservative Bush presidency with Rove back in Texas," said Richard Viguerie, author of "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause."

Viguerie – who invented the idea of using direct mail as a means of going over the heads of what he considered to be a biased establishment press – said that as Bush's chief political adviser, Rove was a "master in the care and feeding of conservative leaders, keeping them mostly silent as the Republican Party moved left during the Bush presidency."

"He used the usual carrot and stick to do this. The carrot was access to the White House, and conservative leaders proved just as vulnerable as others to the lure of a photo op with the president, lunch in the West Wing or a returned phone call from Karl Rove," Viguerie explained. "The stick was fear – speak out, and not only will you lose any hope of access, you will be branded as an extremist, or someone who's helping the Democrats by speaking out."

Viguerie charged that by using both carrot and stick, Rove silenced or gained the support of most conservative leaders as Bush and congressional Republicans "greatly expanded the size and reach of the federal government."

The expansion, he said, included the "No Child Left Behind" education bill, the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, prescription drug benefits, nation-building on a scale never attempted before, farm subsidies, steel tariffs and massive federal deficits.

Rove confirmed today, standing with President Bush and first lady Laura Bush on the White House South Lawn, he will leave at the end of this month.

Bush, who has worked with Rove since the beginning of his political career in Texas, appeared grim-faced as told reporters "Karl Rove is moving on down the road."

"We've been friends for a long time and we're still going to be friends ... I'll be on the road behind you here in a bit," Bush said.

Rove, chocking back tears, said he was "grateful to have been a witness to history."

"It has been the joy and the honor of a lifetime," he said. "But now is the time. ... At month's end, I will join those whom you meet in your travels, the ordinary Americans who tell you they are praying for you."

Rove, along with his wife and son, then joined the president and first lady on the president's helicopter. They flew to Texas on Air Force One, where the president is vacationing.

'Raw, naked political power'

Viguerie acknowledged that as the architect of Bush's election victories in 2000 and 2004, Rove was a "political genius," but said as the president's chief policy adviser, he was "the architect of George W. Bush's betrayal of the conservative cause."

Viguerie said Rove's biggest failure was to leave the White House without achieving his stated goal of establishing the Republicans as the nation's permanent governing party.

"Rove failed in that goal primarily because he attempted to advance the Republican Party by using raw, naked political power and bribing voters," Viguerie maintained. "He copied the Democrats and was more successful than them – for a while. But then conservatives and independents caught on to his game. We started rebelling, first over Harriet Miers and most recently over the amnesty bill. Meanwhile, the Republican Party had lost its 'brand' as the party of small government."

The way to recover from the Rove era, says Viguerie, is to "reject the bribing of voters and instead build on President Reagan's legacy."

The conservative movement and the Republican Party, if it wishes to survive, must be re-established as the movement and party of ideas, he said, "empowering people instead of government and with a strong national defense but no more nation- building."

Viguerie helped transform American politics by pioneering the use of direct-mail fundraising in the political and ideological spheres. Dubbed by some as the "Funding Father of the conservative movement," Viguerie motivated millions of Americans to participate in politics for the first time.

In his book, Viguerie shows federal spending under the Bush administration has grown five times larger than that during the second term of the Clinton administration, painting the president as a traitor to his party.

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I for the life of me do not understand how people could call him an intelligent man

This guy is an idiot and the Democrates loves him ... hmmm, now why would I say that.

Maybe because his input into King Georges head (Immigration etc.) decimated the Republicans and the Democrates didnt have to lift a finger.

It doesnt matter how much Hillery and her husband is hated in America

What matters to Americans now is ... We cant take this crap any more from an idiotic administration or another King sitting on a throne twisting immigration law at a whim

I deserve better representation as an American and the world deserves a more competant leader of the free world

"You can deligate Authority; but you cannot deligate responcibility"