The War Room: Bush on Karl Rove and America's soul

Bush on Karl Rove and America's soul
Dan Froomkin has plucked the money quote from McClatchy Newspapers' extended interview with George W. Bush: The president is pushing as hard as he is on the immigration bill because, he says, "I'm deeply concerned about America losing its soul."

That's not exactly what we'd expect to hear from a man with a rug that says "optimistic person comes to work." And Bush's reasonably eloquent talk of learning about "the decency and hard work and humanity of Hispanics" while growing up in Texas isn't what we've come to expect from a man whose public statements on immigration reform have at times devolved into ramblings about peach men and chicken-plucking factories.

But for our money, the most interesting part of Ron Hutcheson's interview with Bush comes toward the end, when he asks the president whether Karl Rove was "the main guy drawing up the list" of U.S. attorneys who were fired last year. "Just look at the facts as they've come out," Bush says.

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with little opposition.

Either America's soul is becoming evil, or it has been disconnected entirely from the process that America's soul actualls governs some of America's actions.

which he will invite Kissinger to the White House and ask him to drop to his knees in prayer, and then join him in a conversation with the paintings on the wall about the soul of the nation.

Bush doesn't make a great case for reincarnation. Uncanny sometimes.

I shudder to ask....

Nixonian reference. Although, I think he channels a bit of Hitler myself. :shrug:

it is the republican party that lost what little bit of a soul they did have.