News conference is to follow later but for now and unfortunately 7 years too late I can only give you this:

http://www.cnn.com/
CNN

Karl Rove quitting

08:05 EDT time: Aug 13,2007

Karl Rove, President Bush's senior political adviser, will step down at the end of the month, senior administration officials said today. "Obviously it's a big loss to us," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. developing story

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/washingt...PUcFix/1v4CY/hw


New York Times

Karl Rove, Top Strategist, Is Leaving the White House


By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: August 13, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 — Karl Rove, the political adviser who masterminded President George W. Bush’s two winning presidential campaigns, is resigning, the White House confirmed today.

Karl Rove has been a close adviser to President Bush since 1993.
In an interview published this morning in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Rove said, “I just think it’s time,” adding, “There’s always something that can keep you here, and as much as I’d like to be here, I’ve got to do this for the sake of my family.”

Mr. Rove said he had first considered leaving a year ago but stayed after his party lost the crucial midterm elections last fall, putting Congress in Democratic hands, and Mr. Bush’s problems mounted in Iraq and in his pursuit of a new immigration policy.

He said his hand was forced when the White House chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten, recently told senior aides that if they stayed past Labor Day they would be expected to stay through the rest of Mr. Bush’s term.

“He’s been talking with the president for a long time — about a year, regarding when might be good to go,” said Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman. “But there’s always a big project to work on, and his strategic abilities — and our need for his support — kept him here,” she said.

Ms. Perino said Mr. Rove would leave at the end of August.

Mr. Rove was not only the chief architect of Mr. Bush’s political campaigns but also the midwife of Mr. Bush’s political persona itself.

It was widely believed inside and outside the White House that he would walk out the door behind Mr. Bush at the end of Mr. Bush’s term in January, 2009.

Throughout Mr. Bush’s tenure, Mr. Rove vilified Democrats, and they vilified him right back, complaining about his infamously bare-knuckled political tactics on the campaign trail and what they considered his overt politicization of the White House.

He has been the focus in the Congressional investigations into the firings last year of several federal prosecutors, and he was until last year a focus of the C.I.A. leak case investigation that led to perjury charges for Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby.

Mr. Rove emerged from the cloud of the investigation to try to stave off Republican defeats last fall. The subsequent failure was his biggest political loss during his tenure at the White House. Afterwards, he continued to take a central role in key initiatives such as Mr. Bush’s attempt to create a new immigration law that would legalize millions of workers that are currently living in the United States illegally.

A political strategist who solidified his reputation by bringing together the sprawling coalition that put Mr. Bush in office, and which he believed would sustain a prolonged Republican majority, he had considered Hispanic voters to be a potential source of new Republican voters.

In his exit interview today, which was with the editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, Paul Gigot, Mr. Rove had a parting shot for his political nemeses, telling Mr. Gigot that he believed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton would be the Democratic nominee but called her a “tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate,” and predicted a Republican victory in the 2008 presidential race, the sort of political boasting that had become his hallmark.

Do not stand and celebrate this move just yet...

we do not know what the reasoning is behind it, and it could foreshadow something very bad to come...

It is not necessarily a good thing

These guys don't have to be in power to still be in power if you know what i mean...

I think you're right - these guys don't seem to do anything that isn't orchestrated.

After the last 7 years, we know better than to believe it's just "more family time" that Rove wants.

We should watch the horizon carefully. :unsure:

I think this is just more than a resignation as well.

I'm not celebrating. I agree with all three of you. If nothing else it gives Rove the freedom to advise Bush without the Media attention.

To paraphrase Neil Armstrong this is "One small step for the White House, one giant leap for Mankind".

He's probably trying to preserve his reputation among neo-con right-wingers before all those nasty subpoenas and indictments become too embarrassing even for them.

It does kind of sound too good to be true. I don't trust anything Bush and his cronies do and I certainly don't trust a snake like Karl Rove.

If I were any farther from celebrating, I'd be jumping off a skyscraper ledge. Why? Because I have come to believe very strongly that the very future of our democracy, our rule of law, the health of everything that is important and that we treasure about this country is absolutely contingent upon the impeachment of both George W. Bush and Cheney. Rove resigning doesn't even faze me either way. I don't care. I could comment on it in terms of how the timing gives one pause vis-a-vis trying to cover up various and sundry things but it isn't even worth our energy. What is worth our energy is saving the backbone of this country: the rule of law. And the only way to do that, in my opinion, is to impeach the current president and vice president so that the record will show, history will show, that the American people and the American constitutional system will not tolerate an executive branch that believes it is, and acts like it is, above the law. It is our DUTY to impeach. And I feel like very few people get that, very few people care about it, and our country is in extreme peril unless and until we defend the constitutional rule of law and impeach Bush and Cheney. The survival of our country is at stake.

Rove's resignation doesn't even register on my radar at this point.

Excellent, loved it.

The coolyest excellentictationalistic carttoooon I ever seeed

The artist forgot the strings and the puppeteer, "Dick Cheney, The Terrible"

:blink:

I think it can ONLY mean:

the roof is about to collapse - the investigations have him dead to rights on any of a number of criminal counts

or

he is off to work his mischief behind the scenes, shielded from any smattering of oversight, driving his "dirty tricks" to assure they retain the WH*


time will tell.




*Recall the telephone poll when bush was running against Ann Richards for Tx governor:

"Would it affect your vote if you knew that Ann Richard's administration is dominated by lesbians?"

That little gem was an example of how rove managed to get the dried-out drunk into the Tx governorship, an act whose ONLY purpose was to re-brand him in anticipation of a run for president - kind of like money laundering

It is not only our DUTY as Americans to impeach, but at some point, there is a line that gets crossed (I think we're past it!) which REQUIRES US TO ACT! We shouldn't wait to see what K.C. Rove and the Sunshine up your @&& Gang has up their sleeves. I shudder to think!

Those who fail to act are just as criminal! At what point does Congress become guilty, too? Has that time not already come?

17 months?! The world can't afford for us to wait!

Maybe he is planning to enter the race

:dripple:

Now, that would make a really scary horror film

Exactly, that is what I meant by "duty". The founders of the constitution clearly meant for us to rise up and impeach those in the Executive Branch if they behave in a way that tries to amass too much power into that branch, thus messing with the balance of power. More importantly, if they act in ways that demonstrate they feel they are above the rule of law, it is our DUTY to uphold the rule of law and our precious constitution--everything that makes the USA the USA!!!--by impeaching the b*stard(s)!!!

Therefore, since the Bush-Cheney regime has consistently and flagrantly demonstrated a complete disregard for the rule of law, the only patriotic thing to do, and more to the point, our DUTY, is to impeach them both. I don't want to hear how their term is almost over and/or the damage is done or anything. It is our duty to impeach, PERIOD. Otherwise, we are willing participants in the subversion of our constitution.