Last night at the White House Correspondents' Dinner there was an argument of epic proportions that went on under the radar of the traditional media. Karl Rove was confronted on the Bush Administration's terrible policy on Climate Change (being that there is none). Sheryl Crow and Laurie David tried to have a reasonable debate with Bush's Brain but it quickly went downhill.
From The Huffington Post:
In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, "Don't touch me." How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unphased, Sheryl abruptly responded, "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for you, I work for the American people." To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, "We are the American people."
At that point Mr. Rove apparently decided he had had enough. Like a groundhog fearful of his own shadow, he scurried to his table in an attempt to hibernate for another year from his responsibility to address global warming. Drama aside, you would expect as an American citizen to be able to engage in a civil discussion with a public official. Instead, Mr. Rove was dismissive, condescending, and quite frankly a bully.
Ultimately, we were left wondering what on Earth Mr. Rove was talking about when he said "the American people." If more than 60% of American voters, the Supreme Court, over 400 cities, the US National Academy of Sciences, numerous major US corporations, and others don't constitute the American people, then what does? The truth is, if this administration cared one iota about the American people, they would have addressed this problem long ago, and the sad reality is that this problem has been left to us, all of us, since the current administration has abandoned this issue entirely. In the absence of true leadership, we must guide ourselves. We can solve this, but we had better act fast.
That is precisely what Karl Rove is, a bully. Like any typical bully, he hides in his own ignorance and fear. The motivation behind that is unclear, but most likely points to fear of the truth and the possibility of that truth leading to the limitation of the power he now holds in the government. For him to actually converse with representative of the American people would be catastrophic for his narrow-minded approach to dealing with the world. For a self-serving bastard like Karl Rove, it is much easier to scurry away and hide.
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