What Is The Real Karl Rove Story? Why Didn’t He Stay Till the End?
The resignation of the President’s top aide has official Washington buzzing. Frankly, it is a mystery to me.
Karl Rove, the controversial adviser, will step down in a few weeks. It is surprising because Rove is not a quitter. He and George W. Bush have been attached at the hip politically for almost two decades.
Rove has been the architect of almost every major political policy in the last six and a half years. More than that, he’s been at the center of every investigation of the administration from the CIA leak case to the current US attorneys firing scandal.
Frankly.. his resignation at this point is most unusual, and Washington insiders including two of my sources in the US senate wonder if the resignation of the closest man to George W. Bush may be an effort to wipe the slate clean as the Presidents heads to his final 17 months in offic.
Of course, there are sinister perspectives, including the insinuation that Rove might be in legal trouble, and that a departure might fend off Congressional investigations.
No one knows for sure. No one ever expected that Karl Rove wouldn ‘t be there at the end.
Although Rove will be gone, I can assure you that the President will still rely heavily on his advice, for better or worse. Critics of the administration have been very quiet about the Rove move, leading to speculation that something big is behind it.
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Not only that, Denny Hastert is also leaving.