Bush Without Rove Is Hard to Imagine

By NEDRA PICKLER
The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 12, 2005; 4:05 AM

WASHINGTON -- Karl Rove's fingerprints are all over everything at the White House, from politics to policy to the shape of President Bush's entire career in government.

It's hard to imagine Bush without Rove, and vice versa. But the question of what would happen if Rove were forced to resign is something to contemplate, now that the grand jury is pressing the president's aide-de-camp in its investigation into who leaked the identity of a covert CIA officer.

President Bush departs the White House in this Thursday, July 14, 2005 file photo, with his Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, right, as they head for Indianapolis, Ind. For nearly a quarter century, Rove has been Bush's political mentor. Bush calls him "the architect," the "boy genius." Others have called him "Bush's brain." Now, with a federal grand jury nipping at Rove's heels in its CIA leak investigation, the president may have to contemplate the previously unthinkable: managing without his right-hand man. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File) (Ron Edmonds - AP)

White House insiders speaking privately say Rove would be irreplaceable. While Bush has a few other close confidants in aides like chief of staff Andy Card and counselor Dan Bartlett, none combine such an intimate working knowledge of politics and policy with such a long trusted relationship with the president.

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:) Ahhhhh....

This is like wondering what Daniel Webster would be without the Devil..who gives a fuck?

If someone wrote a novel with someone like Bush as
pResident, would you believe it?

Jekyl without Hyde?

"Bush and the lead up to Katrina."

Gonna be fun watching him get caught in his strings.

Whale hoooh.

I hope this pathetic little weasel regrets the day he EVER pulled this stunt. Note to KKKarl: Hubris will bring you down every time.

Everything he does since Rove's kidney stones/banishment has turned to shit.

Bush has no ear for political considerations, and he's surrounded by yes men.

Rove was the only guy who could sell him. Without Rove, his schtick won't fly.

just imagine them together in the same cell ...