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 Rove: "Policy Won Out" Over Politics In Bush White House (video)
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Rove: Bush hardly worst president
washingtontimes.com — By: Mag7 Oh my God stupidpants, you are a MORON. Bill Clinton went into Bosnia, which a certain governor of Texas (named George) called "Nationbuilding and without an exit plan". No kidding W, no exit plan? And Clinton and his staff TESTIFIED under ... (more) Rove: Bush hardly worst president
Rove: ‘Policy Won Out’ Over Politics In The Bush White House
Rove: ‘Policy Won Out’ Over Politics In The Bush White House
thinkprogress.org — Last night on Hannity and Colmes, Karl Rove vigorously defended his role in the White House as the Bush administration’s political guru. “The politics and policy are constantly banging into each other in decisions that are made inside the ... (more) Rove: ‘Policy Won Out’ Over Politics In The Bush White House
Rove’s Bush-Burnishing Thwarted By Reality
Rove’s Bush-Burnishing Thwarted By Reality
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Offering a preview of what he’ll be spending the rest of his career doing, Karl Rove appeared before an audience last night to “ argue that his former boss is not the worst president of the past 50 years.” He appeared at a formal ... (more) Rove’s Bush-Burnishing Thwarted By Reality
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Rove: ‘Policy Won Out’ Over Politics In The Bush White House
Think Progress — Last night on Hannity and Colmes, Karl Rove vigorously defended his role in the White House as the Bush administration’s political guru. “The politics and policy are constantly banging into each other in decisions that are made inside the White House. That’s just the way it is,” he said. When Colmes asked him if that presented a “conflict of interest,” Rove insisted that, under Bush, “policy won out” over politics: COLMES: Is that a conflict of interest though? The intersection of politics and policy? I know you’ve been criticized in the past of combining the two, as if when one conflicts with the ...

The Mayberry Machiavelli forgets his record
Political Animal — THE MAYBERRY MACHIAVELLI FORGETS HIS RECORD.... One of the single most important quotes about Bush's presidency came six years ago. John J. DiIulio Jr., a domestic policy advisor to George W. Bush, told Ron Suskind , ''There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you've got is everything, and I mean everything, being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.'' With DiIulio's perspective in mind, it was jaw-dropping to hear Karl Rove insist last night, on national television, that it was policy, not politics, that won out in the Bush White House. On ...

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