Having Rove on to Pontificate on the Economy is like Having Madoff on to Pontificate on Investing

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Arianna Huffington

Posted March 2, 2009 | 04:27 PM (EST)

Memo to The Media: Having Rove on to Pontificate on the Economy is like Having Madoff on to Pontificate on Investing


Yesterday, on Face the Nation, Rahm Emanuel declared that Rush Limbaugh is "the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party."

This is a useful stance for the Obama administration. As David Frum puts it: "With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence -- exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix" to the GOP.

But, in truth, Rush is just a massive shiny object that distracts our attention from the real intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party, Karl Rove.

At the same time Emanuel was on CBS anointing Limbaugh top dog, over on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos Rove was demonstrating why he is the real force and the real danger in the wounded-but-still-destructive GOP.

For starters, there is the fact that he was even on the show. This Week would never have Rush on as a panelist, but there was Rove, amiably chatting about the week's events with Stan Greenberg, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and George Will.

Then there is Rove's decidedly anti-Limbaughian approach, whereby he calmly, lucidly, and shamelessly attempts to whitewash the past and rewrite history. A history he was front and center in making.

There he was yesterday, the picture of reasonableness, trying to eviscerate Obama's proposals to get us out of the economic mess -- without ever once acknowledging that he was one of the prime architects of the mess. (Don't forget that, according to Paul O'Neill, back in 2002, when Bush was having second thoughts about a fresh round of tax cuts for the wealthy -- wondering "Didn't we already give them a break?" -- Rove urged him to "stick to principle.")

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/memo-to-the-media-having_b_171187.html

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1. "That's what makes Rove so dangerous -- his unbending commitment to derailing our understanding ...

...our understanding of how we've gotten to where we are." - this last sentence in the article says it all. It's clear what his motives are for spending so much time on TV at the moment and he needs to be immediately stopped, hand-cuffed and thrown in jail for contempt (not to be confused with contemptuous, which of course we all know he is) before he can do any more damage to the country.


A good article that's well worth reading in its entirety, thanks for the share.


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