Tuesday, August 14, 2024
Rove: Influential Bad Guy, or Just Bad Guy?
In the Times, Adam Nagourney says Rove's influence will last; in Portfolio (!), Matt Cooper says Rove was never as influential as he's been made out to be.
It's a conventional wisdom catfight!
(Again, by the way, someone at the Times is picking terrific photos; the last one that comes to mind was a pained shot of David Vitter and his wife at Vitter's prostitute-related press conference. Now look at this terrific shot of Bush and Rove "hugging," the way their left hands parallel in some strange, I'm-afraid-to-look-gay distancing. [But where is Bush's right hand?] They look like Tetris pieces that aren't quite fitting together.)
It's a conventional wisdom catfight!
(Again, by the way, someone at the Times is picking terrific photos; the last one that comes to mind was a pained shot of David Vitter and his wife at Vitter's prostitute-related press conference. Now look at this terrific shot of Bush and Rove "hugging," the way their left hands parallel in some strange, I'm-afraid-to-look-gay distancing. [But where is Bush's right hand?] They look like Tetris pieces that aren't quite fitting together.)
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The most talented and methodical analyst of district-by-district voter trends, maybe ever. Any other campaign strategist would agree that the "good or evil" lens you (and others) are applying here is silly.
He did push for social security reform and immigration reform in his policy shoes, but their failure doesn't mean he was wrong about them, just that congress is less effective than a less-than-effective second-term President. The Dems let immigration reform languish (something most Dems have traditionally desired) just to hurt the President, a shameful motivation. At least the GOP opposition to immigration reform was attached to specific objections.
I'm not sure what, if anything, he had to do with pushing for Iraq (though, to be fair, he surely had a big hand in the unimpressive justification rhetoric). But take away Iraq - a foreign policy failure - and you take away his only failure, 2006 (which he still predicted accurately months prior).
Unfortunately for Rove, Iraq is a "doozy" and so, like Bush - as Iraq goes, so goes his legacy.
He did push for social security reform and immigration reform in his policy shoes, but their failure doesn't mean he was wrong about them, just that congress is less effective than a less-than-effective second-term President. The Dems let immigration reform languish (something most Dems have traditionally desired) just to hurt the President, a shameful motivation. At least the GOP opposition to immigration reform was attached to specific objections.
I'm not sure what, if anything, he had to do with pushing for Iraq (though, to be fair, he surely had a big hand in the unimpressive justification rhetoric). But take away Iraq - a foreign policy failure - and you take away his only failure, 2006 (which he still predicted accurately months prior).
Unfortunately for Rove, Iraq is a "doozy" and so, like Bush - as Iraq goes, so goes his legacy.
The egret appears to be unfamiliar with Rove's activities or elects to ignore Rove's repeated abuses of power and distortion of government.
The GOP's opposition to Bush's immigration reform is based on a dislike of Mexicans. That, dear squatter, is "shameful motivation."
The GOP's opposition to Bush's immigration reform is based on a dislike of Mexicans. That, dear squatter, is "shameful motivation."
Sounds like you like to look at everything from 50K feet, where you pretty much see what you want to see. Careful you don't fall.
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