{"id":199326,"date":"2007-08-13T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/13\/rats-and-ship-pushed-whats-with-rove\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T10:14:00","slug":"rats-and-ship-pushed-whats-with-rove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/13\/rats-and-ship-pushed-whats-with-rove\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats and Ship?  Pushed?  What&#8217;s with Rove?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Rove has handed in his resignation, effective the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a whole bunch of notice, so one wonders what the back story is.<\/p>\n<p>He is suggesting that he wants to spend more time with his family, which is such a clich\u00e9 that no one with half a brain believes this.<\/p>\n<p>I see three possibilities:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>He has become a political liability, and was given his walking papers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I find this very unlikely.  The Washington press loves him, and if this were the case, it would have been around the time that Libby was convicted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He left because he had a serious disagreement over some policy of the administration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Likely, and I believe that this dispute might very well be spelled Alberto Gonzalez.  I believe that his continued presence is coming from Bush, and not the people around him.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He&#8217;s getting out because a whole bunch of sh$@% is about to hit the fan, and he&#8217;s trying to avoid jail time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope so.  It would have to be big, and shattering&#8230;but I think that I want this too much to discuss this in an objective matter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He realizes that this is the best time for him to get a lucrative book deal, and leaving for the last 18 months of the Bush administration will insulate him from a lot of the toxic waste that will follow up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most likely alternative.<\/p>\n<p>[on edit]There is also the possibility that he&#8217;s leaving to join a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Rove has handed in his resignation, effective the end of August. That&#8217;s not a whole bunch of notice, so one wonders what the back story is. He is suggesting that he wants to spend more time with his family, which is such a clich\u00e9 that no one with half a brain believes this. I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-bush-crime-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}