Karl Rove to resign effective August 31st

U.S. News and World Report

Rove To Leave White House August 31
At 4 o’clock this morning, the Wall Street Journal’s website dropped a bombshell on Washington, DC. With Congress and the President on vacation, the Journal says Karl Rove “is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas.” Rove made the disclosure in an interview with Paul Gigot, editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page.” In that interview, summarized by Gigot in an opinion piece that appears on page A15 of today’s edition, Rove says he “sees recovery ahead” for Bush and the GOP. “He will move back up in the polls,” says Mr. Rove, “who interrupts my reference to Mr. Bush’s 30% approval rating by saying it’s heading close to ‘40%,’ and ‘higher than Congress.'” Rove outlined his predictions for other political events, noting that “‘Iraq will be in a better place’ as the surge continues. Come the autumn, too, ‘we’ll see in the battle over FISA’ — the wiretapping of foreign terrorists ‘a fissure in the Democratic Party.’ Also in the fall, ‘the budget fight will have been fought to our advantage,’ helping the GOP restore, through a series of presidential vetoes, its brand name on spending restraint and taxes.” Rove predicts the Democrats will “nominate a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate,” Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the GOP will have a “very good chance” to keep the White House. Rove “knows he’ll continue to be a target, even from afar, since belief in his influence over every Administration decision has become, well, faith-based.” Rove said, “I’m a myth. There’s the Mark of Rove.”

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