Ding Dong, the Rove is Gone!

There have been very few times since January of 2001 that I have been pleased by an announcement coming from the White House. But the announcement of the resignation of Karl Rove was cause for celebration in my house, albeit, minor celebration.

As everyone knows, Rove was a major player in the Republican agenda for the last 10 years, at least, and should shoulder much of the blame for the direction our country has taken during that time. Without Rove and his co-puppeteer Dick Cheney, Bush Junior would have never been elected as our president. (Well, okay, the good ol' boys on the Supreme Court helped a little too.) But that's why I only had a little celebration - the damage has been done and some of it is irreparable. Now, Rove is ducking out to avoid being on the sinking ship of the Bush era as it slips underneath the black water, leaving only an oil slick in its wake.

I could spend the rest of the month detailing the travesties done upon the everyday people by Rove and his ilk. However, I chose just one that I believe is representative of the attitude, the disdain for the common people, and the entitlement Rove operated under every day.

In an article in the New Yorker in February of 2001, Rove was quoted as saying:

The tax cuts will make the economy grow. As people do better, they start voting like Republicans-unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Nicholas Lemann, Bush's Trillions: How to Buy the Republican Majority of Tomorrow, The New Yorker, Feb. 19-26, 2001.

Republicans - this is what your party thinks of you. Don't get too smart or too educated or too independent minded. You can get rich, but you better not get too much education. You might start to vote like a Democrat (the horror!) and then where would we be?

My question in February of 2001 and today is the same - How can people consciously vote for a party that believes too much education is a bad thing? Do all these people really walk around believing our country is better off that it was before Bush Junior?

Anyway . . . good riddance, Karl Rove. Don't be sad . . . I'm sure your (totally fabricated) tell-all (ghostwritten) book will be a bestseller.