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Bush Loses Brain

Posted Aug 13, 07 5:11 AM CDT in US,  Politics 

(Newser) – President Bush's most controversial political strategist, Karl Rove, will leave his White House deputy chief of staff position at the end of the month, the Wall Street Journal reports. "I just think it's time," said Rove, who has worked with Bush since 1993. "As much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family."

The White House said the move is not related to the ongoing congressional investigations in which Rove's been implicated, the Washington Post reports, and as expected, the man Bush calls "the architect" isn't going quietly: He told the Journal he expects the 2008 Democratic nominee to be Hillary Clinton, whom he described as "a fatally flawed candidate."

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President Bush, left, walks with his Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, center, and Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Candi Wolff, right , Thursday, July 26, 2007, as he leaves the White...   (Associated Press)
President Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove, left, and counselor to the president Ed Gillespie, enter the Blair House for a going away party for budget director Rob Portman in Washington, Wednesday,...   (Associated Press)
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, right, walks with Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Joel Kaplan, left, and others, into the Treasury Department in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. (AP...   (Associated Press)
President Bush's Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, right, departs the White House with the president in this July 14, 2005, file photo. Rove, President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist,...   (Associated Press)
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove waves from behind a bush as he returned to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 24, 2007, after traveling with President Bush, not shown, to visit Charleston...   (Associated Press)
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove listens as President Bush participates in a meeting on Medicare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 23, 2007. The Senate...   (Associated Press)
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, right, followed by fellow White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joseph Hagin, left, waves upon their return to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 24,...   (Associated Press)
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