Arizona: Karl Rove

Posted by AzBlue Meanie:

The House Judiciary Committee has released the transcripts of interviews under oath of former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and former White House chief of staff Karl Rove. Congress Releases Rove And Miers Interviews On U.S. Attorney Firings | TPMMuckraker:

The House Judiciary committee has posted the transcripts of its interviews with Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, about the U.S. attorney firings.

The Rove transcripts are here. The Miers transcripts are here.

The House Judiciary Committee has also released thousands of pages of e-mails related to the U.S. Attorney firings. U.S. Attorney Firings: White House And RNC Docs Released | TPMMuckraker:

On the U.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The health insurance industry lobbyists, right-wing political action committees, and the RNC are orchestrating an Astroturf campaign to disrupt townhall meetings of Democratic members of Congress to create YouTube moments for the easily gullible and incompetent mainstream media to report as public opposition to health care reform. The people who show up at these meetings would have you believe that their agitprop performance art is spontaneous and genuine. Bullshit. In some parts of the country these agitators have been bussed in by their corporate lobbyist sponsors.

The corporate lobbyists for America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and right-wing political action committees, in particular Americans for Prosperity and

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

For years, Karl Rove ("Turd Blossom") was protected by a feckless GOP-controlled Congress that completely abdicated its constitutional duty to conduct legislative oversight of the executive branch, and abandoned any and all pretense of a moral and legal obligation to enforce the rule of law - as long as it involved a Republican. There were two standards of law, one for Republicans - never to be held accountable, and one for everyone else.

Further, the Bush White House and Karl Rove's attorneys asserted a bogus expansive claim of executive privilege tantamount to blanket immunity (a "get out of jail free" card) for anyone who worked within the executive branch regardless of whether any protected communications with the president ever occurred or not.

Clearly, President Barack Obama didn’t learn many lessons from his predecessor White House.  Where George Bush strayed, there were almost always signs that Karl Rove or some other campaign-flack-turned-policy-advisor was at play.  But if we learned anything over the past eight years, the ability to run a successful campaign does not always indicate the ability [...]