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9-10-2006 6:19 PM
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Kore7 says:
As desperation sets in at the White House, you knew it had to happen at some point. Andrew Sullivan does not often cite anonymous White House sources, but when he does, he makes them count. Be afraid.
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9-10-2006 6:38 PM
jklugman
I think Marc Cooper offers a nice corrective on notions of Karl Rove as some kind of sinister genius:

My readers know I have argued, from the onset, that Karl Rove was over-rated. He's a dull, unimaginative parochial political hack who lucked out with the Bush family.(No smarter than last decade's celebrated "genius," the wildly over-rated hack James Carville who turned out to be much more talented as a self-promoting carnival huckster).

It's always been the Democrats, much more than the Republicans themselves, who have pumped up the fearsome image of the Sinister Rove. A convenient excuse for their own ongoing and myriad...
9-12-2006 11:43 AM
jklugman
From the Washington Post, via Brendan Nyhan:

Three previous times in the past 18 months, as public opinion has slipped, White House officials have announced that Bush would embark on a renewed effort to explain and defend his Iraq and anti-terrorism policies. None produced a lasting positive effect on how Americans view either the president or his policies.
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