BREAKING: Karl Rove resigns at the end of Aug.

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from BBCNews and the Wall Street Journal - (breaking as of 4am when I'm the only one up [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]_

Karl Rove has announced he will resign at the end of August to spend time with his family.

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As an aside here, Karl got his friend to the Presidency, but one cannot help but think it was his penchant for dirty politics and desire to maintain a permanent Republican Majority by any means that played such an important role in sinking the party in 2006 -

and if straw poll turnout in Iowa is any indication, the Republican fatigue with it's candidates is pretty severe -

My favorite story about the character of Rove came from Barack Obama's book about when a senator came to him saying "if you change this and this in the president's bill, I can guarantee you 80 votes and bi-partisan support in the Senate"

And Rove said he didn't want 80 - he only wanted 51.

Bipartisanship or consensus was never part of his vocab. - good riddance.

rb