So, What's Karl up to these days?

[Norquist Nemesis]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/politics/11rove.html?hp&ex=1131685200&en=c2ac3f5915f21de9&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=login

By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: November 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 - The architect, it seems, is back.

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"I've noticed a big difference," said one Republican in regular contact with Mr. Rove who declined to speak for attribution because the White House did not authorize it. "There's a spring in his step, more focus, more - something. Some sort of weight off his shoulders."

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"I think he's focused on a lot of things - working to help people at the White House and talking to people on the Hill about the agenda next year, and he's certainly focused on the '06 elections," said Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, who filled in for Mr. Rove at the Oct. 15 event for Jerry Kilgore, Virginia's attorney general.

In particular, several Republicans said, Mr. Rove drove the decision to recruit Judy Baar Topinka to run in the Illinois governor's race in 2006, a development this week that suddenly made the race competitive for Republicans. Although Mr. Rove is still leaving contact with candidates to his subordinates, especially Mr. Mehlman and Sarah Taylor, the White House political director, he is back to mapping out the nationwide strategy as he has in races past, several Republicans said.

[electropop]

1. Living in denial.

Hope he enjoys his last days of freedom.

[thefloyd]

2. Time has an interesting article contradicting such claims

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1126712,00.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Thanks! I'm not seeing it as contradicting though

It primarily focuses on Rove in the WH. The NYT is referencing his influence in mapping out 2006 races.

If Rove leaves the WH, he'll be free to focus completely on the State races. Given that Bush can't be re-elected, allowing Rove to exercise his strength (masterminding campaign strategy) then that might be seen as a more important road to take. Just as in the same vein that kept Reaganism going, Rove can keep Bushism going under the umbrella of "The Conservative Movemement".

[thefloyd]

8. I am talking about future plans

Nytimes indicates Rove is making plans like a senior official planning on sticking around. Time indicates the Bush Rove relationship is strained. Just seems like one article indicates business as usual contradicting the Tone of the Time article which to me indicates Rove is tying up loose ends before departure.....Or frogmarch

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. Gotcha!

:thumbsup:

[Richard Steele]

3. He's having the same dream all night, every night:

[riderinthestorm]

4. I believe he believes he's over the hump

But I also believe he's delusional and Fitz is gonna whup his ass.

I think Bush's latest comments are all scripted by Karl ("I am not a torturer" and "Congress saw the same WMD/Iraq intel as the WH")

I don't think he's hiding but I don't think he's sitting in a corner obsessing - he's just laying low and playing his slimy political games.

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. I agree Fitzgerald is going to have him indicted

I also think that's why he's going ahead and getting all of the ducks in a row for the 06 races.

[ewagner]

5. Is he on the trip

to Asia with Dubya?

That will tell me a lot about what he's up to.

[thecrow]

10. I thought B** appointed him to head the Katrina effort

but I haven't seen anything about that since.

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. He did! And then there wasn't anything about it except....

*drumroll*

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/13057859.htm
Bush names recovery chief

Powell is FDIC chair

By LARA JAKES JORDAN

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - Donald Powell, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., has been assigned to oversee the federal government's disaster recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration announced Tuesday.

Powell, 64, a wealthy contributor to President Bush's presidential campaign, will be in charge of the long-term plans to rebuild the states hit by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the late summer. The sluggish federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the first and most damaging of the two, particularly has been widely criticized.
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But Rove's name is suspiciously absent from the article! It seems the media thinks the American people are all stupid and have problems with short term memory.

[Halliburton]

12. READ THIS!

Media whore Kornblut takes the spin and doesn't question a damn thing.

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1112nj_waas.htm