Congressional testimony and e-mail messages released Tuesday showed that Bush administration political adviser Karl Rove and other senior aides played an early and active role in the 2006 firings of a number of federal prosecutors, the New York Times reported. “This basic truth can no longer be denied: Karl Rove and his cohorts at the Bush White House were the driving force behind several of these firings, which were done for improper reasons,” said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
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Rove under the guise of bush, was the biggest threat to America’s values and democracy than even cheney.
“This basic truth can no longer be denied: Karl Rove and his cohorts at the Bush White House were the driving force behind several of these firings, which were done for improper reasons,” said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
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Are you sure John? After all, it might involve reviewing a few details.
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“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill? — Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
Fed prosecutors who refused to open investigations on Dem opponents of GOP politicians in Fed elections were fired by Bush.
Duh. We’ve known this for years now.
The best part, is the investigation is ongoing, I hope these lack of ethics actions are punishable under law. If not they should be.
You can also bet Rove was responsible for the Alabama (Gov?) that went to prison. Has he been released yet?
You know what packs more of an informative punch than this “news”?
This. Can you imagine the sense of outrage on the right if David Axelrod were anything more than a political advisor to President Obama?
If David Axelrod were appointed Senior Advisor to the President, a policy development role in the White House the Palin branch of the GOP would go nukular (Karl Rove held this exact position in Bush’s administration).
If Axelrod held the same position Rove held, the GOP would be nuttier by at least one order of magnitude, probably more.
You’d think a prosecutor like GMC would be outraged over such actions, but it’s a safe bet he’ll be the Repub apologist again.
Rove should be fired immediately
The things Joe Mccarthy could’ve accomplished if he’d had the Rovian powers.
It’s a disgrace to our ‘freedoms’ that political prosecutions should be ordered from the administration.
Puts me in mind of the Saddam Baathist party, except they had the power to just assasinate rivals, instead of destroying their careers.
Another complete waste of time…
They ain’t got nothing…
Reg, your boy Rove should have been in prison years ago for a lot of reasons. Instead Fox, of course, has given him air time to spread his vile musings.
Dennis
YellowdogLiberal
Posted August 12, 2009 at 1:42 pm | Permalink
Reg, your boy Rove should have been in prison years ago for a lot of reasons. Instead Fox, of course, has given him air time to spread his vile musings.
Dennis
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You Libs love him, just like you love your spiked neck collars and your collection of gerbils used for night time activity in the bedroom.
Regular – are you ‘coming out’ about something to us today? You sure seem to know all about it.
But the important issue is – do they use pencils??
totoinks
Posted August 12, 2009 at 1:58 pm | Permalink
Regular – are you ‘coming out’ about something to us today? You sure seem to know all about it.
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Evidently, you do as well…
Is that you Tom?
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Regular
Posted August 12, 2009 at 1:53 pm | Permalink
You Libs love him, just like you love your spiked neck collars and your collection of gerbils used for night time activity in the bedroom.
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Another brilliant post by the resident troll.
“JMWalker” –
Troll?!
Our ol’ pal “Regular” is “just playing.” He admitted it the other evening.
The poor guy had a stroke last fall. He’s still trying to return to the intellectual heights he hit when he was running under the pseudonym “Geoff Holman.”
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33576
This is what
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“. . .which were done for improper reasons. . .”
The attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president. They don’t need any reason, there can’t be an improper reason!
Get over it libs.
Sheesh
” there can’t be an improper reason!” WRONG!
The department has been carefully treading a path for many decades of avoiding direct, political manipulation because of the havoc a politically partisan Justice Department could create if abused.
This is important stuff. Justice should not be in the pocket of any one political party.
Imagine if an unscrupulous party were to order Justice Department minions to launch politically inspired and indictments at opposing candidates during an election campaign.
Imagine if politically dominated Attorneys General were ordered to ignore law breaking by the party in power, we’d be in a very bad place.
There ARE inappropriate reasons. That’s why this is a big deal.
“DavidB” –
I can’t imagine!
Oh, wait…
They ain’t got nothing…
Waste of time…
I cannot wait to see that slug frog marched off to prison.
Minutelady is basicallly saying if the president wants an Attorney General to bring baseless child pornography charges against a political opponent, to get a member of his party elected to an office, there’s nothing wrong with that and the A.G. damn well better do it or lose his job.
Thank God we’ve taken our country back from these kooks.
“If the Republicans do it, it’s not improper.” Nixon had similar reasoning.
I’m not at all sure these Rove defenders are true Americans, they sound more like insurgents trying to bring down our govt.
“Regular”
Posted August 12, 2009 at 1:25 pm | Permalink
“Another complete waste of time…
They ain’t got nothing…”
Then came back hours later with his revised opinion –
“Regular”
Posted August 12, 2009 at 4:32 pm | Permalink
“They ain’t got nothing…
Waste of time…”
Thanks for the update!
let me see…Bush replaced what, 8 US Attorneys and the libs are STILL frothing at the mouth. As long as we are discussing history, shall we talk about the NINETY THREE US attorneys that Clinton fired? Obviously not..the libs don’t care about that.
I bet there won’t be much “outrage” when bho replaces us attorneys either. But….oh boy, another chance to chant: bush bush bush bush bush.
some people need a life….
Sounds like Rove turned on Domenci at the drop of a hat, “I was just relaying a message”, defense. Somehow, I see Rove not as an order taker, but an order giver.
It’s not the number discharged, it’s the reason for their discharge, sounds like extortion to me. Do what I want or else.
Repubs just can’t wrap their minds around ethics, or an impartial Justice Dept AG, can they? Guess it’s because they didn’t have one, and it never affected them directly, so why the fuss?
Recall the flat denials from that are now revealed to be outright lies.
There may be evidence that he lied to Congress under oath..
Doesn’t have bush to protect him anymore either, he’ll squeal like a pig and tell everything he knows to save his butt.
He’s just a pos. He will be another chapter or three in the history books that won’t reflect well on bush the lesser.
Democrats drowing in koolaid. Self love alert.
Karl Rove is Darth Teflon Teddy Bear.
I do enjoy his insight when he comments on Fox News. Fascinating guy.
They got nothing.
Well, devotees of the party of blameless sociopaths go on acting, themselves, like blameless sociopaths. And good little fascists nyah-nyah-nyah’ers. A sure sign that “they got nothin’.”
I’d say Karl Rove and Harriet Miers are in quite a bit of trouble.
This is all a surprise to people? “W” has the most covert administration since Nixon. And I’m afraid he’ll make Nixon’s gang look like a bunch of choir boys.
“attitude” –
Careful with that approach.
The CONs of WE Blog will come back with something like,
“Oh yeah?! Well your [sic] lame blaming everthang on a previous prezdent. And besides, CLINTON DID IT, TOO!!”
Or Jimmy Carter.
Or FDR.
Or Andrew Jackson.
You’ve entered a zone of CONcepts that’d swirl Rod Serling’s mind.