Karl’s Got a Bug Up His Arse

One of Karl Rove’s ever-diminishing talents is for putting bugs in strange places.

Like his own office.

True story.

Told in “Bush’s Brain”… Karl bugged himself and then, once it was found, he blamed his opponent in a soft, passive-aggressive sorta way. It worked. The event created a backlash.

But now, the Boy Genius of the Neo-Con nightmare we all call the start of the 21st Century is experiencing another campaign tactic-inspired backlash. This time, it’s the revulsion of the overwhelming majority of the World and the American Electorate to him and his style of politics.

Awwww. Diddums get smacked upside the head by reality?

Whatever one might say about the last eight years, the simple fact is the Rove…a man widely hailed in the press for many years as a "genius"…is looking pretty darn stupid these days.

The GOP is now a fading relic of a soon-to-be bygone era of aging White folks hunkered down in suburbs and rural enclaves, driving gas-guzzling SUVs, clinging to guns and fearful of Black and Brown people, but ever-more happy to buy anything and everything plastic made in China with their magically free-flowing credit lines.

And Karl played a huge role in that. And now Karl is out there yelling at Frank Sesno and David Plouffe about "bias" and "partisan rancor" and the need to "work together" and discard partisan impulses.



Uh…yeah. This bizarre mutant Egghead student of the Fundamentalist wedge issue…a man who, as a college Republican leader hand-picked by Poppy Bush, held a seminar on how to run Watergate without getting caught (see Bush’s Brain)…is moaning and groaning about fairness.

Now, in all fairness…there is little to be hopeful about when the Dems have the Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum of the banking industry–Sen. Christopher Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank–running the financial sideshow in Congress. And the "See No Evil" leadership of Nancy Pelosi is no barrel of monkeys. And yes, the Goldman Sachs Mafia has people in the White House running a protection racket.

But, Karl, let’s face facts. Your much-hyped, overly-analyzed push to create a permanent GOP majority has…well…turned into hard-to-avoid enduring Democrat ascendancy that, as the demographic trends you once wielded like an axe now indicate, will make the GOP an also-ran for years to come.

You had as much bugging as you wanted. You had an unprecedented constriction of Constitutionally-guaranteed civil liberties. You had the ability to control and shut down dissent. You had Jack Bauer and the media making your case–for Iraq and fear and permanent warfare. You had all of that…and you still couldn’t do it. In fact, the GOP has never looked worse off than it does today.

Luckily for the GOP, the Dems are, for the most part, bought and paid for by key special interests. They can blow this lead. Easily. But they will have to do a lot wrong to make up for the damage done by you, W and the Neo-Con/Evangelical monster you stitched together like self-obsessed, bulb-headed Dr. Frankenstein.

So, you can yell at Frank Sesno. You’ve got Condi and Dick out there trying to prove that war crimes make Americans safer. And you can attack the Dems and David Plouffe for rolling in a Trojan Horse of bi-partisanship named Obama. But let’s be honest. That bug up your ass is a lot like the one in your office many years ago. You put it there yourself.