When Karl Rove left the Bush White House in 2007, he was a battered figure. The President whose two elections he had …
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Roving Far and Wide
Karl Rove is a great American patriot, a genius, a statesman, even. And now he has proven his phenomenal, overflowing patriotism by setting up a secretive finance group, in conjunction with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce–that’s right, our very own, United States Chamber of Commerce–to run sleazy political ads, funded by
Off Camera, Obama White House Reveals Enemies List
In a rather obvious play to the Democratic base, Team Obama has been talking a lot about Republican svengali Karl Rove in recent days. This has irked Rove, an organizer of the Republican ad group American Crossroads, who has been telling basically everyone he speaks with publicly–a.k.a. Fox News, Mike Allen–that he has been placed on …
Why Can’t Rachel Maddow And Rand Paul Get Along?
Last week, Rand Paul turned on Rachel Maddow. After Maddow invited him on her show, and painted his libertarian views as a proxy support for private sector segregation, Paul announced that he had been attacked by the “Looney Left.” So it goes. Politics ain’t T-ball. Yet we can all still hope that one day Maddow and Paul find a way to …
Ask Karl Rove
TIME is taking reader questions for an upcoming interview that will run in the magazine. You can submit your queries here.
Karl Rove’s Advice For The Tea Partiers
Stay independent. Weed out the kooks. Get a focused message. From today’s Wall Street Journal:
My advice to them is to keep their distance from any single party and instead influence both parties on debt, spending and an over-reaching federal government. Allowing third-party movements to co-opt the tea partiers’ good name, which is
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Obama Would Fire The Afpak Leaker
At least, that’s what he tells CBS’s Chip Reid:
Reid says he asked the president if he’s as angry as Defense Secretary Robert Gates about all the leaks coming out of his administration about the Afghanistan decision.
“I think I’m angrier than Bob Gates about it,” Mr. Obama replied. “We have deliberations in the situation room
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Palin=W.?
We are in the middle of Palinmania and it’s going to last a while between Oprah, Barbara Walters, the book tour and the sniping between Palin and McCain worlds. Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball last night was astounded that America – or at least the Republican base – seems to love the aw shucks candidates, berating Rep. Judy …
