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KARL ROVE

Health Bill Will Speed
Swing Back to GOP

Suburban, independent voter trend is bad news for Dems

Nov 5, 09 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - This week's election results spell out a trend that should scare Democrats in both red and blue states, warns Karl Rove . Suburban and independent voters turned away from the party at a rate that would have easily put John McCain into the White House last year, and the health bill... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Karl Rove • Republican Party • health care reform • congressional Democrats • independent voters • Obama administration • Election 2010 • Election 09

KARL ROVE

Obama Backlash Will Wallop Dem Candidates Next Week

GOP's chances looking good in Gov races as fallout builds

Oct 29, 09 1:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - America's dissatisfaction with Democratic rule just 9 months into the Obama presidency will be crystal clear after next week's elections, writes Karl Rove . Republican Attorney General Bob McDonnell looks set to defeat Democrat Creigh Deeds in Virginia's gubernatorial race on the back of anti-Washington, anti-Obama sentiment, Rove notes in the... More »

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Karl Rove • Jon Corzine • New Jersey • Virginia • Obama administration • gubernatorial races • Creigh Deeds • elections • Bob McDonnell • Election 09 • election day November 2009

OPINION

Rove: Health Care Bill Is
Gift to GOP

Backlash against spending will be 'boon'
to party in 2010

Oct 8, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The GOP is winning the debate on health care and it'll win control of Congress as well if the Democrats manage to pass a health care bill, writes Karl Rove. Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus wants to "front-load" the bill with hefty tax hikes that will kick in... More »

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health care • Congress • Karl Rove • government spending • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Max Baucus • 2010 election

 Cleland Memoir 
 Recalls Horrors 
 of Vietnam, 
 Karl Rove 

Cleland describes how he survived grenades and Republican attack ads

Oct 6, 09 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Max Cleland may be a living symbol of dedication to country—the former Georgia senator lost both legs and an arm to a grenade in Vietnam—but that didn't stop Karl Rove's political machine from ending his political career with attacks on his patriotism. "There are plenty of reasons... More »

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terrorism • Karl Rove • Vietnam • homeland security • Georgia • Vietnam veteran • senator • Saxby Chambliss

OPINION

 Rove Warns Prez: 
 Don't Leave 
 Afghanistan 
 to Biden 

Obama should drop his 'aloof' approach and start listening to his commanders

Oct 1, 09 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's hands-off approach to Afghanistan may suit his governing style but it's no way to win a war, writes Karl Rove. The president has only spoken with his top commander in Afghanistan once since June, notes Rove. This apparent indifference to conditions on the ground contrasts sharply with his... More »

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Afghanistan • Joe Biden • Karl Rove • Afghanistan war • President Obama • Stanley McChrystal

OPINION

 Rove: You're Boring Us, Obama 

Prez needs to get off TV, start working on better health plan

Sep 24, 09 1:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - If President Obama wants opponents to buy his health care plan he'll have to come with a better plan instead of trying to bore them into submission by repeating details of the one he's got, writes Karl Rove. With his recent round of TV appearances, "Obama made a classic... More »

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health care • Karl Rove • talk show • health care reform • bipartisanship • President Obama

White House Throws
Weight Into State Races

Some Democrat's fret about administration's increasingly partisan direction

Sep 22, 09 6:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is becoming increasingly assertive in trying to influence state-level elections around the country, the New York Times reports. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other top political strategists have made it plain that they're willing to play hardball to strengthen the Democratic ticket where necessary—... More »

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Karl Rove • Arlen Specter • partisanship • Rahm Emanuel • governor • David Paterson • Obama administration • 2010 election • gubernatorial races • Michael Bennet • Joe Sestak

OPINION

Foolishness, Not Evil Genius, Drove 'Rove-o-Lution'

Top adviser's near absolute power corrupted absolutely

Sep 20, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Dick Cheney • Karl Rove • Donald Rumsfeld • conservative • George W. Bush

OPINION

Rove: The
Dems Can't Prove a Thing

Says no evidence he did anything wrong in US attorney firings

Aug 20, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove has been cruelly persecuted. For years now the House Judiciary Committee and the New York Times editorial board have been trying to pin him as the mastermind behind the US attorney firings. Recently the committee called him in for a two-day, 12-hour interview, and what did it discover?... More »

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Karl Rove • US attorney firings

APPRECIATION

 Novak: Last of the
 Shoe-Leather 
 Columnists 


Aug 19, 09 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most Americans will remember Robert Novak as the acerbic right-winger on CNN, but he saw himself first and foremost as "a shoe-leather reporter," writes Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz. Novak prided himself on getting scoops and uncovering secrets via a wide network of Republican officials. But that... More »

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Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • conservative • obituary • CNN • columnists • Robert Novak • Howard Kurtz

(Newser) - The House Judiciary Committee released documents today that Democrats say put Karl Rove and former Bush counsel Harriet Miers at the center of the US attorney firing scandal, Politico reports. “Karl Rove and his cohorts at the Bush White House were the driving force behind several of these firings,... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • House Judiciary Committee • Harriet Miers • David C. Iglesias • John Conyers • US attorney firings • Lamar Smith

(Newser) - Karl Rove was intimately involved in the firing of at least three of the US Attorneys sacked for purportedly political reasons during the Bush administration, emails obtained by the Washington Post show. One note mentions a senator who “asked that we remove the US Atty” and “couldn’t... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • Karl Rove • email • Congressional hearings • Harriet Miers • US attorney firings

(Newser) - Karl Rove fired back today at Maureen Dowd for criticizing former President Bush’s frequent vacation time in Texas, Politico reports. “I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times,” Rove told Fox News, “who misses no opportunity to show... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • New York Times • Fox News • Maureen Dowd • columnists • George W. Bush

Rove Tight-Lipped After Grilling Over Attorney Firings

Bush aide cooperated with prosecutor: lawyer

May 15, 09 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove stayed mum as he left an interview with a special prosecutor today about the firing of US attorneys during the Bush administration, the AP reports. Nora Dannehy questioned the former White House aide at his lawyer’s office; she left after about 4 hours. Rove’s attorney said... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • Karl Rove • Harriet Miers • US attorney firings • prosecutors • Nora R. Dannehy

(Newser) - Karl Rove is on the hot seat tomorrow. The former Bush adviser will be interviewed by federal prosecutors as part of a criminal investigation into the firings of US attorneys in 2006, the Washington Post reports. Rove will meet with Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who has been charged... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • Karl Rove • Harriet Miers • US attorney firings • prosecutors • federal prosecution • Nora R. Dannehy

OPINION

Rove: Pelosi's an Accomplice to Torture

'Someone appears not to be telling the truth' about waterboarding

May 14, 09 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove indulges in a bit of revenge on Nancy Pelosi in his Wall Street Journal column today, writing that "the political persecution of Bush administration officials she has been pushing may now ensnare her." As evidence mounts that the CIA told her as early as 2002 about... More »

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Bush administration • Nancy Pelosi • Congress • CIA • torture • Karl Rove • waterboarding • Porter Goss • harsh interrogation • Leon Panetta

Rove and Plouffe Go
Negative at Book Event

Old-school politicos can't help but go at it

May 5, 09 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Old campaign hacks never die; they just bicker at events to boost book sales. Last night Obama campaign geek-in-chief David Plouffe and Bush hatchet man Karl Rove went at it in Monterey, California, only half-playfully, the Huffington Post reports. Rove attacked Obama’s commitment to bipartisanship; shot back Plouffe, “... More »

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Karl Rove • David Plouffe • Election 2008 • Obama administration

OPINION

Obama's Apologies Create a Sorry Situation: Rove

No reason for contrition in GOP pundit's mind

Apr 23, 09 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has finished his "international confession tour," and Karl Rove can’t figure out what it was supposed to accomplish. After his public apologies on two continents, "our adversaries rejoiced," Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal. David Axelrod swears this will yield “... More »

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Barack Obama • Latin America • Karl Rove • diplomacy • Europe • France • foreign policy • apology • Obama administration

OPINION

 Meg: Eww, Rove Is 
 Twitter-Stalking Me! 

Creeps like Rove and the county sheriff prove to be the downside of Twitter

Apr 21, 09 4:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain likes being able to share the "humorously uncensored" moments of her life on Twitter but she's not so thrilled about sharing them with the likes of Karl Rove, she writes in her Daily Beast blog. "I am now being followed by Karl Rove, and my... More »

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Internet • Karl Rove • politics • Meghan McCain • Twitter • Meghan McCain Twitter

 Rove: GOP Ignores 
 Tea Parties at Own Peril 

Party needs to harness anti-tax feeling as issue moves to the forefront

Apr 16, 09 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove thinks the "tea party" anti-tax movement is "frequently amateurish and sometimes shrill," but he knows an opportunity for his beleaguered GOP when he sees one. The movement represents an outpouring of real and growing concerns that the party can't afford to ignore, the... More »

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Karl Rove • taxes • Republican Party • taxation • tea parties

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