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Rove is resigning
By Ned | August 13, 2007
And thus goes the political strength of the White House. Or not.
Exactly how much influence Rove had inside the White House when not campaigning, and how much damage he alone did will probably never be fully revealed. But that’s not really the question on everyone’s minds right now - there’s plenty of time for that when he actually leaves later this month. What everyone’s wondering right now, is : why did he leave?
I’ve heard two possible reasons. Of the two, I’d wager that the more likely one is:
A desire to avoid congressional oversight
There have been a lot of scandals in the Bush White House, but the politicization of the Justice Department in particular seems to have become one of the most damaging scandals they’ve been through, if only because of the new Congress’s willingness to investigate. If Rove was involved in this, it makes sense he would want to duck out before his refusal of a subpoena got him a contempt of Congress citation.
A new, scary direction for the Republican Party
The GOP has been imploding politically for a while now and it’s plausible that Rove could want to duck out instead of being stuck as one of the chief political architects of a now seriously deformed party structure. I’m a little skeptical of Marcy Wheeler’s “the Republican Party is about to go very overtly racist” explanation, but the rest of her post is worth reading.
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