Karl Rove Knee Deep In Scandals?

  While browsing through my broad database of information ( Internet ) I ran into the MSNBC website. This is nothing new as I visit there quite a bit to look at what Keith Olbermann has to say.

   Last Friday, on his Countdown show, Olbermann had a chat with Jonathan Alter ( Newsweek ) on the prosecutor scandal which is quite revealing. This also shows how involved Karl Rove is when it comes to keeping the GOP in power.

Olbermann: Does it seem as if most of these scandals surrounding this administration right now---one might say engulfing it---have this underlying theme of Karl Rove attempting to use the resources of the federal government to ensure his dream of a permanent Republican majority?

Alter: Well, there‘s no question that‘s what he was planning to do, and had at least one meeting a week for the last seven years to do that. And that‘s the thread that ties this Justice Department scandal together.

It was a concerted effort to put their people in and screw the Democrats. And so what they did is they broke all precedent, for instance, and started bringing voter fraud indictments just before an election, to make it seem like the Democrats were the corrupt party, almost always in swing states. The prosecutors who were fired, with only one exception, all came from swing states.

So they were trying to poison the well there before the election, in violation of tradition. And you see a lot of professional prosecutors who are just outraged about this, Keith, whether they‘re Democrats or Republicans. [...]

[Y]ou‘re going to see a lot more testimony in the weeks to come. And I think Rove, over the course of this year, is going to be in deep doo-doo on a variety of issues. We don‘t know which one will do him in, but I wouldn‘t be surprised if he‘s not working in the White House by the end of the year. [...]

Just to give you one quick example with probably the most famous prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald: when it came time to appoint him, Karl Rove told the Republican senator from Illinois, No, don‘t put him in, he might be too independent and go after the governor of Illinois---the Republican governor at the time, who was a crook, later convicted. So clearly, what Rove was trying to do is in jurisdiction by jurisdiction, protect Republicans, go after Democrats, and essentially turn our criminal justice system into what they have in a banana republic.

That is COUNTDOWN for this, the1,447^th day since the declaration of mission accomplished in Iraq.  I‘m Keith Olbermann, good night and good luck.

 

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Bush Before He Was Elected Said These Things...

   More on the Bush ramblings about supporting our troops in Iraq.

"The facts are stark and the facts are real. . . Our men and women in uniform love their country more than their comfort. They have never failed us, and we must not fail them. But the best intentions and the highest morale are undermined by back-to-back deployments, poor pay, shortages of spare parts and equipment, and rapidly declining readiness."

". . .these are signs of a military in decline and we must do something about it. The reasons are clear. Lack of equipment and material. Undermaning of units. Overdeployment. Not enough time for family. Soldiers who are on food stamps, and soldiers who are poorly housed. Dick Cheney and I have a simple message today for our men and women in uniform, their parents, their loved ones, their supporters: Help is on the way!"

                    —George W. Bush VFW Speech - August 21,2000

   But wait! There's more!  From the same speech above.

As commander-in-chief I will give our military a clear sense of mission.  America will be involved in the world.  But that doesn�t mean our military is the answer to every difficult foreign policy situation.

 When America uses force in the world, the cause must be just, the goal must be clear, and the victory must be overwhelming.

These lessons of our history must never be forgotten. The lesson of freedom must never be tarnished

   Compare this speech while he was running for president in 2000, with his actions since gaining office.  Need I say more?

 

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