A final word from Karl Rove?

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A final word from Karl Rove?

Bush strategist addresses conservative think tank as Democrats see demise

NEWS ANALYSIS
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
Updated: 1:23 p.m. ET May 15, 2006

WASHINGTON - Some Democrats have already celebrated the downfall of Karl Rove.

At a Michigan Trial Lawyers’ Association dinner Saturday night in Dearborn, Mich., the group's vice president Robert Riatt announced -- according to the Detroit Free Press -- that President Bush’s longtime strategist had just been indicted. The announcement reportedly prompted a standing ovation by the crowd of 700, which included Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Strange then that a relaxed-looking Rove – not indicted, not out on bail, and wearing a business suit, not orange prison garb -- was in person at the right-wing think tank, American Enterprise Institute Monday morning.

Rove was, as usual, nerdy in his use of statistics, and was chummy and flattering with the reporters present -- just like in 2000 when Bush was first running for president. At one point in the question-and-answer session Rove told National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson, “I love watching you on television.”

If Rove is indicted soon, as some Democrats hope and expect, then this may have been Rove’s valedictory message and the essence of it was: things are better than you, especially you in the mainstream news media, think.

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There was only one reminder Monday of the investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald: Rove refused to answer a question from David Corn of the Nation magazine on whether he’s leaked information about former CIA employee Valerie Plame. “Nice try, though” he told Corn.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12799420

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1. the tone leans toward indictment

(maybe)they know something

Tom Curry seems Dem friendly though

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2. Why would KKK remove his speech from the public record for AEI,

and then show up?

Strange then that a relaxed-looking Rove – not indicted, not out on bail, and wearing a business suit, not orange prison garb -- was in person at the right-wing think tank, American Enterprise Institute Monday morning.

More and more it looks like R* will indeed be indicted, but that the Leonard story was 'planted' by KKKRove sources to make T.O. look bad.

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3. or, remember

the indictment process is a lever for Fitz. If he has one, then he's likely holding several more charges in the other hand to elicit more from Rove. That would delay the process. Rove could also manipulate the process to delay, but I don't know how much interest he has in kicking around one journalist while his own ass is up in the air.