(2006-03-10) — Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove has engineered a series of Bush administration failures in an attempt to distract Americans from the president’s plummeting popularity in the polls, and to generate sympathy for his plight, according to an unnamed White House source.
The collapse of the Dubai Ports deal yesterday is just the latest in a series of intentional missteps designed to endear the lameduck president to historically-empathetic Americans, the anonymous source said.
In the past year, Mr. Rove has allegedly harpooned Social Security reform, promoted Harriet Miers’ Supreme Court nomination, botched the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the roll-out of the new Medicare prescription drug plan, soiled the president’s relationship with Congressional Republicans and leaked details of the top-secret NSA eavesdropping program that stripped countless Americans of their civil rights.
“Rove knows that America loves an underdog,” said the unnamed White House official who talked to someone who has been briefed on Mr. Rove’s scheme. “As the Bush administration fragments into a million little pieces, our nation will rally to its beleaguered president and he’ll go down in history as our most beloved leader.”
Meanwhile, the latest AP-Ipsos poll shows that 70 percent of Republicans believe Iraq will plunge into civil war, and 95 percent of Americans will answer ‘Yes’ if you ask the question the right way.
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1 RightWinged.com // Mar 10, 2006 at 8:48 am
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2 The Moderate Voice // Mar 10, 2006 at 11:13 pm
THIS JUST IN! (From Scrappleface)
THIS JUST IN from investigative reporter Scrappleface:Rove Makes Bush Fail to Distract from Unpopularity
by Scott Ott
(2006-03-10) — Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove has engineered a series of B…
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