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The obligatory Karl Rove post

By Phil Barron ⋅ August 13, 2007 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Post a comment

Actually, I don’t think I care about Rove’s announced resignation and am not sure much has changed apart from atmospherics. Svengali will still be on The Decider’s speed dial, regardless of his removal from the official organizational chart, and - as we’ve seen with Harriet Miers - Rove will doubtless enjoy the shield of executive privilege should he be troubled by pesky subpoenas.

Still, as a symbol of the failure to establish a thousand-year Republican reign, Rove’s resignation serves us well. The dream ends not with the blare of trumpets, but with a middle-of-the-night whimper.

Addendum: Serendipitously, an Atlantic Monthly article by Joshua Green exposes Rove’s overblown reputation as a political mastermind.

The story of why an ambitious Republican president working with a Republican Congress failed to achieve most of what he set out to do finds Rove at center stage. A big paradox of Bush’s presidency is that Rove, who had maybe the best purely political mind in a generation and almost limitless opportunities to apply it from the very outset, managed to steer the administration toward disaster.

(HT to Political Wire.)

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