LAT/AP: Bush Passes on Public Endorsement of Rove (surprise to some at WH)

On edit: Told by whom, I wonder?


Bush Passes on Public Endorsement of Rove
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON -- President Bush passed up a chance Wednesday to express confidence in senior aide Karl Rove in a political fight over a news leak that exposed a CIA officer's identity. The lack of endorsement surprised some White House officials who had been told Bush would back his embattled friend.

Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, later asserted that Rove had "cooperated fully" in the federal investigation, had done nothing wrong and was prepared to provide additional information to a special prosecutor if needed.

"This is a serious investigation," Bush told reporters after a Cabinet meeting, with Rove sitting just behind him. "And it is very important for people not to prejudge the investigation based on media reports."...

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Bush said he would not discuss the matter further until a criminal investigation is finished....

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The failure by Bush to publicly back Rove left some White House advisers privately wondering whether the president was distancing himself from his longtime adviser....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top11jul13,0,313068.story

Can you imagine the fall out if he gets fired?

... he will be well taken care of and no skeletons will be revealed.

until then, he's jsut as innocent as anybody else, and I'm sure the White House has their fingers crossed the prosecutor keeps him that way. As the idea of conviction nears, the idea of dumping Rove may be a more politically saavy choice. Not dumping him in the days Rove is centered in a criminal prosecution would bring the White House more deeply into the scandal and spur questions that led to watergate:


"What did the President know and when did he know it?"

He smeared Ann Richards, his treatment of John McCain and his family was ruthless and slanderous, and he's still at it.

Maybe he finally crossed the line with out a CIA operative.

That little twerp was behind this whole thing, the rotten, vindictive bastard that he is .....

What dirty dastardly deeds would he disclose?

Yahoo reports on it with this story:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1624337&mesg_id=1624337

"Bush refuses to comment"

The LA Times was reading more into it than was there.

and does add the interesting information that some WH officials were told that Bush would, in fact, endorse Rove, and were then surprised that he did not. I agree that interpreting this as "distancing," as some at the WH are reported doing, is speculative.

A reporter asked Scotty specifically if bush had confidence in Rove, and Scotty danced around it, saying that the White House has confidence in all its people and that bush answered the question asked of him.

The reporter then retorted that bush didn't stick to questions in the past, so why was he not answering beyond the question today?

I'm paraphrasing. In short, they were mocking Scotty protecting bush who is protecting his own a**.

Now do si do, motherfucker.

:P

:D

but gloating.

When the heat is on, he'll just do what Poppy did.

He'll pardon that asshole Rove before the indictment even reaches him.

Surely you remember Caspar Weinberger...

:patriot:

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Sh*t!!!!

Just think how much money this guy Bush has stolen in broad daylight
from the American Public.....Does he really give a damn about leaving
office this term? Or whether or not Rove goes to jail and is pardon in the same breadth?

Hell no!!! He's got it made!!

You pay for it every mile you drive!!

The wheels on the bus are coming off...in the White House.

...they are handling this internally. Anyone in the know understands Rove's overall importance in this administration. He won't see anything resembling jail time, as amusing as that sounds. He'll most likely skate on a technicality, claim it is high time he 'spends more time with the family', and slots in to some highly paid think tank job. His role of keeping this administration in power for two terms to ensure the SCOTUS appointments has been completed, his legislative agenda is more than half done for the credit and energy industries, and he is liked less by Poppy than even Junior is.


Meanwhile, Tom Delay is dancing around lighting his Cuban Cigars with copies of the Downing Street Minutes and giggling like a school girl as another MSM red herring is fished in.

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(Scarecrow)
I could wile away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain

I'd unravel any riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain

(Dorothy)
With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain

(Scarecrow)
Oh, I would tell you why
The ocean's near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more

I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain

http://thewizardofoz.warnerbros.com/movie/cmp/r-lyrics.html

.... KKKarl has become a liability to the family ....

now we'll see how well he can twist (in the wind) on his own ...

anything could happen.,

he ends up as another dead victim of the Bush Crime Family.

some one will appologize first and say its not personal, its just politics...

and so they toss some off the troika to the wolves....

"We belong dead?"
Hmmm...

admit/confess/reveal........

After all, it would be in the best interest of America...that makes it justifiable...


How to make him talk...lets go get those guards from the prison in Iraq to "persuade' the dude to come clean....

We can starve, him, not let him sleep, scare him with pit bulls, etc etc

I would laugh myslef silly.

What if he offered to work for lIbruls ?

and the Dems politley decline to accept before turning him over the the Iraq prison guards. Cue the pit bulls, sleep deprivation, and the scare theatrics !!!

bwa ha ha ha ha ha lets see how brave you conservatives are !!!!

just make him wait while they mull it over.....forever.....

Rove is beneath contempt and only weasels will rally to his defense.

Were I a judge on a tribunal hearing this case I would find the duty onerous and distasteful,

Hopefully the court really IS a machine that follows the law.

--"This is a serious investigation," * told reporters after a Cabinet meeting, with Rove sitting just behind him with his hand up *'s ass--

if there's room left in Gitmo.....

The masters of confussion.....and MIS-communication

"Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, later asserted that Rove had "cooperated fully" in the federal investigation of the leak, had done nothing wrong and was prepared to provide additional information to a special prosecutor if needed."

Translation: "If Karl goes to Leavenworth, all-y'all motherfuckers go to Leavenworth."

If Bush was really trying to disassociate from Rove, he would not have been so clearly in view sitting just behind him during the press conference. If we see Rove disappear from future photo-ops however, or in places where he is traditionally with Bush then we can really begin to wonder what's going on. We can only watch and wait (and hope).

using the Media and false interpretations by the Media of International LAWS..

Not to Mention ROve OUTED a CIA Agent TO the MEDIA -- ABOUT a FORGED Nuke Report he LIED about (in the media) and TO CONGRESS..

---Bush, speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting with Rove sitting behind him, said, "This is a serious investigation. >>>>>>>And it is very important for people not to prejudge the investigation based on media reports."<<<<<<<<<<<<<<---

My Irony Meter is Busted real bad..

get him off a 660 year sentence for laundering drug money thru precious metals. Luskin got busted for recieving ill gotten gain, but only had to give back half, $250,000... back.. :wow:

fire him except and unless Rove reveals the ending of WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY...