What The Bloggers Are Saying About The Karl Rove Resignation

Here is what I have to say about it…

1. Who cares?

2. Can you take Bush with you?

3. I guess he figured he couldn’t cause much more damage in the White House, so he’s movin on.

4. Time for him to make millions on a book deal.

5. Jail? Not.

6. Couldn’t he have just wrote a letter? Did we really have to see the whole show?

7. I won’t be crying myself to sleep over this.

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From Erin at BlogHer

The Associated Press reports Karl Rove, President Bush’s close friend and chief political strategist, announced Monday he will leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration.

Also see what Kim Pearson from BlogHer is saying.

Arianna Huffington from the Huffington Post

Having dodged the Plamegate bullet and confident of executive privileging his way out of the U.S. Attorney firings scandal he no doubt masterminded, Rove is heading out the door the doughy personification of the Bush White House.

In his exit-announcing interview with WSJ editorial page editor Paul Gigot, the man dubbed the Boy Genius manifested all the worst traits of the administration he helped forge: he was delusional, fanatical, and deceptive.

From POLDRAW

The resignation of Bush’s frat mate and personal wizard Karl Rove, who to the intense pride of my homeland’s tabloids is a Norwegian-American, is going to generate a fabulous frenzy in media circles, as commentators and columnists line up to analyze the legacy of the man they will call a brutal, brash, immoral and loyal genius – responsible for the rise and fall of Republican dominance.

From Wolf Pangloss

So the Rover put in his two weeks’ notice. I don’t know exactly what his contribution was, it’s hard for anyone outside the White House to know exactly what it was, but he must have done something right to judge by the spit-flecked vitriol of the increasingly lunatic left. He probably did some things wrong too. But errors are unavoidable.

From the traffic in my head

well, the weasel resigned today….no more elections or policies to manipulate….no more rights to erode….he’s done enough damage to our constitution already…

From Blasphemous AND Offensive

Karl Rove, resident overlord of Hell President Bush’s senior political adviser and puppetmaster, decided to do the one good act he’ll ever commit in life today.

He resigned.

And it is about time.

From Lobo’s Rants

I was about 35,000 feet above Ohio watching Direct TV via Jet Blue when I heard the word about Rove. Can you jump higher than 35,000 feet? If so – I did it. Yes, Rove wants to spend more time with his family back in Texas. I am sure his 19 year old college son cannot wait for Dad to return so they can play catch in the yard.

From FORCE QUIT

Following the other rats off of the ship, Karl Rove announced his resignation today. He cited it was time to move on to “the next chapter.” Does this mean that he is bringing the apocalypse?

From j. blake huggins

I think just about everyone knows at least one Lord Rove’s nicknames. There’s “the architect” and the infamous “MC Rove,” but I bet you didn’t know this one:

From Mix Tape Therapy

Don’t let the door hit ya where the dog bit ya.

From because I said so

It’s Christmas in August for liberals, and a bad day for the administration.

From My Words

CBS should clean house, but they will not. A CBS White House “reporter” blasts Rove in a show of ill-manners that belongs on the WWE and not at the White House.

From Free Thought

Don’t [forget to] let the door hit you on the way out.

Cadillac Tight

The liberal Democrats in the House, Senate, and blogosphere have been trying to get rid of Karl Rove for what, six years now?

Now that he’s leaving voluntarily, these Democrats will try their damnedest to keep him in Washington for more sham hearings into the U.S. Attorneys matter.

From Matters of Little Consequence

Rove Out

From ThreadingWater

Come September, it will get harder for White House staff members to find their happy spot. Who knew Karl Rove was such a silly face?

From The Invisible Opportunity

Karl Rove has committed many crimes including stealing and rigging elections, masterminding the Department of Justice scandal for firing attorneys, and leaking the name of a CIA operative. …and that’s just since he moved to Washington D.C. from Texas.

From The Huffington Post

You won’t have old Karl to kick around anymore! When he and Bush boarded Air Force One together this morning, all that was missing was the dramatic Nixonian “I’m outta here” two-armed wave.

The Wall Street Journal Online

At DailyKos, one commenter wrote that Rove’s decision to step down wasn’t good enough: “Investigate, prosecute and imprison the bum,” while Matthew Yglesias at the Atlantic speculates that the Texan was leaving as a result of an unflattering story in this month’s issue.

On RealClearPolitics, former head of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives Peter Wehner has posted a piece in appreciation of Rove, which includes a story about why he knew that Bush would be reelected: “To give you a sense of the trust we all have in Karl: during the 2004 campaign, I was asked by lots of people who I thought would win and why. Rather than elaborate analysis, or a state-by-state breakdown, I had a simple formulation: We have George W. Bush and they John Kerry; we have Karl Rove, and they don’t.”

From ChenZhen’s Chamber

Well, everyone is talking about it, so I might as well post something too. Rove is resigning. My gut tells me that this is a sign that this is more about Bush’s hopeless lame duck status than anything else. I’m sure Rove won’t be too far out of the game though. He’s only a phone call away, after all. There’s plenty he can do without having to physically be in the White House.

From All Things In Their Place

It takes a whole awful lot for me to get down on America. I don’t have a “Love It or Leave It” bumper sticker or anything, but even when things are going badly and the country is guilty of serious failures of our national character, I don’t fall into that intellectually lazy “Blame America First” cacophony that always seems to erupt.

Also See:

What they are saying at the Daily Kos.

What Talk Left is talking about.

At Truthdig

What is Redstate saying?

What Reuters is saying.

AND JUST FOR FUN…