Good Riddance To Karl Rove

The sweetest music hit my ears this morning, and it wasn't listening to "The Best Of Van Morrison." According to the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, Karl Rove is leaving the White House at the end of the month. Of course the reason is so that he can spend more time with his family, why else would anyone want to leave the Bush Administration (threats of criminal prosecution aside)? August 31st will end over six years working in the West Wing and many more years of being Bush's brain. The man that led George to so many successes has turned into one of his biggest detriments, and now it is his time to go.

From The Washington Post:

Rove, 56, who escaped indictment in the CIA leak case, has been under scrutiny by the new Democratic Congress for his role in the firings of U.S. attorneys and in a series of political briefings provided to various agencies across government. Citing executive privilege, he defied a subpoena and refused to show up for a congressional hearing just two weeks ago on the allegedly improper use by White House aides of Republican National Committee email accounts. Fellow Bush advisers have said they believe the congressional probes have been aimed in part at driving Rove out.

The White House said his departure was unrelated to the investigations. In an interview published this morning, Rove told Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul A. Gigot that he had been interested in leaving last year but did not want to go immediately after the Democrats took over Congress, nor did he want to abandon Bush as he fought for his troop buildup in Iraq and an immigration overhaul.

"I just think it's time," Rove told Gigot in comments confirmed by the White House. The Journal said White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten told Rove and other senior aides that if they stay past Labor Day, they would be expected to remain through the end of the second term, Jan. 20, 2009.

The time was before he even got there, he helped mastermind two stolen election and the manipulation of the American people who mistakenly voted for the worst President of all time. Clearly, he was good at his job. Even more so, he was terrible for this nation. He was a servant of the Bush Administration and an enemy of democracy. Rove was complicit and smack in the middle of many illegalities that have and are taking place in the White House.

The Democratic Congress has been hot on his trail this year after Patrick Fitzgerald could not pursue him anymore in the Valerie Plame trial. Email-gate has stunk up Washington even more than its usual swampy smell and that may ultimately have been his downfall. Now he says he is done with politics for good after more than thirty years of dirty tricks that stretch back to the Nixon years when he was the leader of the College Republicans. He will definitely be missed by the many proteges in that organization, but for this progressive on a sunny New York morning....I'm ecstatic.