Top adviser's near absolute power corrupted absolutely
(NEWSER) - Liberals like to think of Karl Rove as a malevolent demigod, using his powers to obstruct the greater good. But, former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer writes in the Washington Post, the legacy of “Bush’s Brain” is far more mundane: “It is a story not of grand strategy or evil genius but of human foolishness and the love of power.” And if Republicans want to recapture the imagination of Americans, they’ll have to dissect what went wrong during the “Rove-o-lution,” Latimer says. More»
