- House Democrats don’t think they can convince Americans to support… cutting the deficit by making rich people pay more taxes. What are House Democrats even for, anyway? (The Hill)
- Mocking Sarah Palin’s crib notes is a terrible affront to the Baby Trig because Palin is just not subject to the same rules as other politicians, also too. (ThinkProgress)
- Oh, and speaking of which, Sarah Palin simply cannot stop lying about things to serve her political interests. Palin 2012! (The Plum Line)
- FOX News uses fraudulent polls, according to Bill O’Reilly and Karl Rove. FOX = ACORN?!?!?! (Daily Kos)
- Terrible batterer Scott Cohen will drop out of the Illinois Lieutenant Governor race to be replaced by… well, pretty much anyone. (WGN-TV)
- Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), the first Vietnam vet elected to the House, has died at the age of 77. (Press Release)
Archive for posts ‘Karl Rove’
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Orly Crazy? Yarly Crazy!
- Contrary to previous reports, the British NHS has actually kept Stephen Hawking alive for all these years. (Guardian)
- Remember a few years ago when folks started asking questions about what role Karl Rove had played in the firing of several U.S. attorneys and everyone was all “Shut up, hippies!” Well, turns out the hippies were right. (USA Today)
- Orly Taitz is not just a birther. She’s also certifiably crazy. (Esquire)
- Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) is being shepharded around Pennsylvania by the U.S. Capitol Police, after reports from town halls made him fear for his safety. (CNN Political Ticker)
- A Texas judge has ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word because of a patent dispute. Back to WordPerfect for us! (Slashdot)
Providing Unemployment Benefits is Basically Communism Anyway
- Your federal government offered Mississippi and Alabama some stimulus money to help them pay unemployment benefits to people who’ve lost their jobs, but both states said “No thanks, comrade” and are now proudly out of money and can’t pay unemployment benefits. (Wall Street Journal)
- The NRA does not care for Sonia Sotomayor because she would not allow New Yorkers to carry nunchucks, leaving them defenseless against the daily hordes of bridge-and-tunnel ninjas. (Washington Times)
- Your South Carolina leglisature will not impeach Governor-for-Life Mark Sanford because they don’t consider his skipping out on the state/country for five days without telling anyone to be “serious misconduct in office.” (CNN)
- The House Judiciary Committee interviewed Karl Rove yesterday about some crime he probably committed while George Bush was president, but shhhh!, don’t tell anyoen about it. These are secret interviews. (New York Times)
Rove: Sotomayor Is Dumb for All the Reasons Bush Is Smart
I can’t think of a reason why anyone these days would take anything Karl Rove says at face value (or any value, for that matter), but check out this little bit of cognitive dissonance.
Here is Karl Rove on Sonia Sotomayor’s educational background:
CHARLIE ROSE (MODERATOR): “She [Sotomayor] is very smart.”
KARL ROVE: “Not necessarily.”
ROSE: “What do you mean? She went to Princeton where she graduated with honors and then went on to Yale Law School….”
ROVE: “I know lots of stupid people who went to ivy league schools.”
Meanwhile, here’s Rove talking about George W. Bush:
ROSE: So your power in the White House was exaggerated?
ROVE: Washington is a small town. Small towns have strange local rituals. They have their own mythmaking. The myth was that this guy, who was a Yale history grad and a Harvard MBA, was not smart. So when he does something smart, how do we explain it? We attribute it to the political guy nearby.
And more about Bush, from a few months ago:
He plays up being a good ol’ boy from Midland, Texas, but he was a history major at Yale and graduated from Harvard Business School. You don’t make it through either unless you are a reader.
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McCain Campaign Lies to Media During Conference Call Complaining About the Media Calling Them Liars
You just can’t make this stuff up:
Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.” They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record.
But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy.
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“Any time the Obama campaign is criticized at any level, the critics are immediately derided as liars,” Schmidt told reporters.But as he went on to list a series of stories he thought reporters should be writing about Obama and Biden, in almost every instance he got the details wrong.
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Asked about the series of errors, McCain aides could not provide evidence to back up Schmidt’s assertions.One McCain aide, Michael Goldfarb, said Politico was “quibbling with ridiculously small details when the basic things are completely right.”
Another, Brian Rogers, responded more directly:
“You are in the tank,” he e-mailed.
I guess John McCain really has been talking to Karl Rove. The lies will never stop.
Even Karl Rove Thinks McCain is a Liar
If you’re a Republican and freaking Karl Rove says your campaign ads have gone too far, your campaign is officially in self-destruct mode:
WALLACE: All right, and for fair game, what is McCain doing that goes a step too far?
ROVE: Well, McCain has gone in some of his ads — similarly gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test.
That last part is Rovian double-speak for calling John McCain a liar.
Wow. This is a bit like being labeled a sleaze merchant by Bob Guccione or Larry Flynt.
Update: Team Obama watches Fox:
“In case anyone was still wondering whether John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest campaign in history, today Karl Rove — the man who held the previous record — said McCain’s ads have gone too far,” said campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor, in a statement sent to reporters minutes after Rove’s on-air comments.
Also, Turdblossom is apparently pissed that Democrats are failing to mention his criticism of the Obama campaign. Thing is, we expect Karl Rove to be saying shit about us because that’s how he pays his bills. Criticizing
BREAKING and UPDATED: Rove Subpoenaed
The AP reports that the House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Karl Rove.
The subpoena issued Thursday orders Rove to testify before the House panel on July 10. He is expected to face questions about the White House’s role in firing nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 and the prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat.
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers had negotiated with Rove’s attorneys for more than a year over whether the former top aide to President Bush would testify voluntarily.
“It is unfortunate that Mr. Rove has failed to cooperate with our requests,” Conyers, D-Mich., said in a statement. “Although he does not seem the least bit hesitant to discuss these very issues weekly on cable television and in the print news media, Mr. Rove and his attorney have apparently concluded that a public hearing room would not be appropriate.”
“Unfortunately, I have no choice today but to compel his testimony on these very important matters,” Conyers said.
Seeing as how we haven’t heard any testimony from Harriet Miers, I doubt we’ll ever see Karl Rove perjuring himself testifying before Congress.
Update: The Raw Story has a copy of Conyers’ letter to Rove’s attorney, which came with the subpoena. Some interesting snippets (italics mine):
Your letter is incorrect in suggesting that the enclosed subpoena will raise the same issues as the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subpoena to Mr. Rove and the pending lawsuit concerning our Committee’s subpoena to Harriet Miers. Both these matters focus on the firing of U.S. Attorneys in 2006 and efforts to mislead Congress and the public on that subject. Here, as we have made clear from the outset, the Siegelman case is a principal focus of our request for Mr. Rove to testify. In addition, unlike Harriet Miers, Mr. Rove has made a number of on-the-record comments to the media about the Siegelman case and the U.S. Attorney firings, extending far beyond “general denials of wrongdoing.” There is no question that both the prior subpoenas to Mr. Rove and Ms. Miers should have been complied with. But it is even more clear that Mr. Rove should testify as we have now directed.
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