Cry, the Beloved Country!

The news, in the New York Times Sunday, that Karl Rove is up to his old tricks again is profoundly depressing. How can this monster of deceit and master of the politics of personal destruction be operating again in full public view? Has he not done enough damage in a lifetime of plotting?

Was this odious power-monger not exposed as one of the most egregious and unprincipled individuals in our nation's history, when he was dropped by the Bush administration in 2007 as a growing liability in the White House, where he had appointed himself Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, responsible for dirty tricks and Republican -- rather than American national -- interests. "Though no allegations have been proven or sustained, Rove's name has come up in political scandals, including the Valerie Plame Affair, the Bush White House e-mail controversy and the related dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy," Wikipedia notes. Ugh! Together with Vice President Dick Cheney, the two men ran the White House -- and the country -- into ruin. Cheney's chief of staff was caught and metaphorically hanged, but Rove and Cheney escaped the sheriff. Yet now, only several years later, we read in the NYT that Rove has raised "$32 million and counting" for mid-term election campaign interference via a new political extremist organization Rove is "advising' and pushing. "Already, plans at American Crossroads include an anti-Democratic barrage of attack ads that will be run tens of thousands of times, a final get-out-the-vote push with some 40 million negative mail pieces, and 20 million automated phone calls, officials there say."

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