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Karl Rove orchestrating the ‘Bush Legacy project.’
Think Progress —
... for a single thing that went wrong on his watch.” Heather at Crooks and Liars catches the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes revealing that Karl Rove is orchestrating the Bush’s legacy project: ...
The Bush Legacy Project
Political Animal —
... " about casual approach to his place in history -- Bush seems to have some friends who remain very much concerned about his legacy. The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes noted on CNN yesterday: "[T]here's an ongoing Bush legacy project that's been meeting in the White House, really, with senior advisers, Karl Rove, Karen Hughes has been involved, current senior Bush administration advisers and they are looking at how to sort of roll out the president's legacy." I'm at a bit of a loss trying to imagine what the "Bush legacy project" hopes to accomplish. After Ronald Reagan left ...
Can we stop pretending that Karl Rove is some kind of pundit now?
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... He can only further destroy the GOP. In fact, we owe him some gratitude for foisting Sarah Palin on John McCain. We can only hope he continues to advise the Republican Party. He's done so much for them already. I'm not so sure about that. After all, Americans have short memories and Jeb Bush is looking at a Senate run. But I think it's time for mainstream media to stop giving this marshmallow man a forum, now that he is running the "Bush Legacy Project." I only wish I was kidding: The conversation then moved to discussing the ...
Lickspittle for a Pig
The Poor Man Institute —
... And so it is that George Bush’s legion of revisionists have already embarked on the quest of softening the jagged edges of preemptive war and applying gauze halos to the photographs of dead Americans floating in the deluge of Katrina. Karl Rove, one such embellisher with skin in the game, began the task of burnishing the hopelessly rusted codpiece by gaming the expectations and proclaiming, defiantly, that Bush is “ ...
FOX News Host: Bush Very Much Kept Broadly To The Governing Philosophy He Ran On
News Hounds —
... During his turn, Colmes asked Rove, “There's some report out of the Weekly Standard that you're taking part in something called the Bush Legacy Project, having meetings in the White House about the Bush legacy. Is that true and what is it?” (Comment: I think Colmes meant that Stephen Hayes from the Weekly Standard spoke about this on CNN. It was then picked up by ...
Brad Woodhouse: Another presidential legacy gets the Orwellian treatment; Reagan got away with it, George W. will not
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... And now the same folks that brought us the needless $3 trillion war in Iraq have the mother of all swan songs left in store: redefining the Bush legacy as something other than a failure. Weekly Standard senior writer and GOP insider Stephen Hayes let slip earlier this month that an unofficial White House PR campaign is afoot - which Hayes dubbed the "Bush Legacy project" -- with the mission of highlighting what they believe are the President's accomplishments and shirking responsibility for the more numerous and far more consequential failures. ...
