As announced this morning through the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove has resigned as President Bush's chief political strategist. His final day in the White House will be August 31. His reason for leaving? Spending time with his family. While the "spending more time with my family" has become some-what of a default resignation excuse for many officials, it can't really apply to Rove.
His kid is going off to college this year, shouldn't he have wanted to spend time with his family, before his kid went off? But then again, Karl Rove would rather make a mockery of this government than spend time with his family. He waited to leave until there was nothing left to screw up. Ok, in all seriousness, Rove probably knew that when Congress got back from vacation he was going to pounded harder than ever and just wanted to escape the scrutiny. Maybe he should have thought of that before he took part in Bush and Cheney's illegal doings: the firing of the U.S. Attorneys, the CIA leak case, the e-mail scandal, and who knows what else. With the new warning from Chief of Staff Bolten that whom ever does not resign by Labor Day will have to stay with the White House for the remainder of Bush's term, we may see some more members of the administration say good-bye to Mr. Bush.
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Rove's resignation is about trying to dodge not testifying in the congressional probe. I think congress should go to court to challenge the executive privelidge the president has claimed.
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