Karl Rove: King Of Asshattery
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He should apologize or resign. Preferably both.
White House adviser Karl Rove should either apologize or resign for remarks that liberals responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes by wanting to “prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Democrats said Thursday.
Adding to the rancor, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested that Republican charges that Democrats were undermining the war on terror with their criticism of administration policies amounted to an act of desperation.
“The president wanted to go to Iraq in the worst possible way and he did,” Pelosi said. “The president is on the ropes.”
Rove, Bush’s chief political adviser, said in a speech Wednesday that “liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.” Conservatives, he told the New York state Conservative Party just a few miles north of Ground Zero, “saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.”
Rove said the Democratic Party made the mistake of calling for “moderation and restraint” after the terrorist attacks.
Democrats were quick to respond – and in growing numbers.
“Karl Rove should immediately and fully apologize for his remarks or he should resign,” Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement. “I hope the president will join me in repudiating these remarks.”
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called on Bush to “show some leadership and unequivocally repudiate Rove’s divisive and damaging political rhetoric.”
On Rove’s side? The intellectually dishonest interment apologist Michelle Malkin and her other right-wing cohorts.
First Draft says you should ask if your representative stands with Karl Rove.
Americablog further explores Rove’s bile.
Kos:
We want to understand why Osama Bin Laden hasn’t been captured? Why did the administration take its eyes off Al Qaida to invade Iraq? I mean, Al Qaida is the enemy Rove himself said we had to defeat. But we haven’t.
Conservative John Cole notes bills that passed with overwhelming Democratic support in the House and Senate (420-1, 98-0) to fight the war on terror and says Rove has some apologizing to do.
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Well, of course, the Dean/Durbin attack has evaporated. Got to keep feeding the animals.
Why am I not surprised…
That the queen of the Right, thinks Karl Rove was right. Via Oliver, who obviously feels different….
So, Ferris, you will condemn Rove’s remarks? Because, you know, you wouldn’t want to be a hypocrite, right?
Of course, when the person in question has a (D) behind their name, it’s “Give ‘em hell, Howard”, or “Stand Behind Durbin”.
You guys are making this too easy…
Sort it out folks. What Rove said was a thousand times removed from what Durbin said. Durbin criticized the troops. Rove criticized the political opposition. Durbin compared the troops to the worst humans in history. Rove basically called the political opposition namby-pambies. So none, not one, of the Democrats who are hyperventilating at Rove said a word about Durbin – meaning, I guess, its OK to describe the troops as Nazis but not OK to indicate the liberals’ response to a terrorist attack was not strong enough. Anybody but me see a huge qualitative difference here. Troops= Nazis/Commies, Liberals= weak response to 9/11. Why is what Rove said so different from Democrats charging Bush lied us into war? Is your thin so skin that you can dish the cr*p out, but can’t take it.
Good for Bush for telling the hypocritical yahoos to stick it.
Dugger
You’re gight, Farris, Democrats should say nothing when we’re accused of being traitors. Truly your logic has carried the day.
Durbin compared the activities the troops have been ordered to do to atrocities. You and Rove have libeled the left as not being strong on terrorism, when we favored authorizing force into Afghanistan and beyond to defeat terrorism.
The first was never said. What Durbin said was: If I told you what someone did to this prisoner, you’d guess it was done by Nazis, blablabla.
The second is a rather mild paraphrase of what was said. “Liberals wanted to give them therapy.”
The left is. was. and never will be, strong on terrorism…
The Viet nam war bug’s got ‘em, and it won’t let go.
Oliver
If its true it ain’t libel. I and the American public think, as the last election demonstrated, the left is weaker on fighting terrorism. What Rove said was right on. What Durbin said was despicable.
Dugger
Trust is up to you…
If you’ll never trust a Republican again, what do you want me to do about it?
The left mishandled Korea and Viet Nam, they mishandled Somalia and Haiti. Wars are just not their thing. What can I say?
The right has and never has been strong on logic or those opposing America. They preached isolationism and Nazi appeasement during WW2, they refused to pull out of Vietnam when they were sending the poor and minorities to die there, and they were in charge when 3,000 Americans were killed by terrorists.
Tell me again why the hell I would ever trust you guys with the simplest sort of security?
The last election proved that he with the larger megaphone and a whipped press can create all the illusions he wants. Or would you deny the data that those who voted for Bush, especially the hardest core voters, were among America’s least informed. The line you, and Rove, push is both despicable and unconnected to reality.
Keep it up Karl. You are doing us a big favor!! This is my first expression of gratitude to Karl…let’s hope it isnt the last. ( and i doubt it will be ).
Let’s try to take a look at this a bit rationally. When in the positions of power previously, the Democrats approached terrorism as a law enforcement matter, ie. indictments. Even their presidential candidate, Sen. Kerry, indicated that he felt terrorism was a law enforcement issue. Thus, the indictments aspect of Rove’s quote rings true. Then, if you go back and look at the “blame America”, root causes, what were their motivations groups, it is easy to see how he could make the rhetorical leap to the therapy part of the quote.
The same people that are decrying this rhetoric were defending Sen. Durbin when he compared the actions of our soldiers to Nazi’s, the gulags, and Pol Pot, but now how such feigned moral outrage that they are demanding that a political adviser apologize and resign. Apparently, only one side is allowed to use strong language in the ongoing debate.
Durbin lies and uses a grossly unjust historical analogy to denigrate our troops, and you support that. Rove makes a comment that by its individual parts seems to be a fairly accurate representation of your position, and you moonbats go crazy?
Would you say the same thing of the Elections of 1992 and 1996?
I would.
But did he mention Hitler?
Karl Rove make a typical political statement and a firestorm breaks out. Well, a firestorm among the Democrats, anyway, which I will admit is more akin to a tempest in a teapot. He said,
JD – so you are saying that the war in Iraq is a better way to handle terrorism as oppossed to improved homeland security, funding our fire department or even shoring up the border?
Interesting…it all makes sense now – you guys are ALWAYS WRONG!
Well, unfortunately, the firestorm that was supposed to break out ( a conservative populist mobilization heavily fueled by rovian rhetoric…get the boys juiced up again…remember how bad those damn liberals are? ) ….uhhh…didnt. It was an attack that left the right on the defensive instead of the offensive. In other words, you GOT NO MILEAGE from it. Looks like people aren’t buyin that same ol’ line anymore. And for good reason. For your sake I hope they dont abandon ship on the ‘liberal media bias’ lie…or the ‘homosexual agenda’ lie…or the ‘blame america first’ lie…cause without these, you got nothing.
Zappa – If that means fighting them over there, instead of on the streets of Topeka, KS., then yes, it is a far better way to fight the war on terrorism.
Though there is obviously more work to be done on homeland security, we have made significant strides. I agree that shoring up our borders is something that should be addressed, but at the same time, it will be demagogued to death by the Democrats. Funding our fire departments? When exactly did this become a federal priority?
In the end, the alternatives you listed are defensive in nature, options that either repel attacks, or deal with the aftermath. I much prefer taking the offensive.
No, we are NOT to blame.
Karl Rove has joined the crazy far religious right, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly in blaming 49% of our country for the September 11 attacks. This has to stop.
Ask for Karl Rove’s resignation.
Huh. Rove’s comments were out of line. However, coming from the guy who circled the wagons around Durbin, this seems entirely hypocritical. I guess I’m not surprised.
JD – you believe that the Iraq is helping or hurting the war on terror?