Some conservatives question Rove's future

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101520.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Breaking with the White House and fellow conservatives, Republican Sen. Trent Lott and the head of the Cato Institute questioned on Tuesday whether top White House adviser Karl Rove, who remains in legal jeopardy in a CIA-leak probe, should keep his policy-making job.

Rove was not indicted on Friday along with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby. But lawyers involved in the case said Rove, President George W. Bush's top political adviser and deputy chief of staff, remains under investigation and may still be charged by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. snip

Lott of Mississippi and William Niskanen of the libertarian Cato Institute both echoed Democratic calls for a White House shake-up. snip

Niskanen said any White House shake-up should "start" with Rove because of his association with the leak case.

"He's provided good political judgment on campaigns, but not good political judgment on getting legislation through," Niskanen told Reuters.

[EFerrari]

1. Okay. I'm going out to buy a lottery ticket.

:kick:

[PDittie]

2. The Revenge of the Lott.

God, what a nasty, embittered fuckwipe he is.

[NNN0LHI]

4. He is just following orders n/t

[PDittie]

6. It sounded to me like he went

WAY off the reservation by sticking in a shiv into Rove's pasty white gut.

[eleny]

7. Sounded like that to me, too

He didn't back off the issue during Tweety's interview. Just pointed out the fact of how it might not be so good for the political wing of the WH to make policy decisions. He knew what he was doing.

[carolinalady]

3. Methinks they are worried about the upcoming war info. n/t

[politicaholic]

5. I guess that NOLA porch invite of Lott's was a little premature...

Are the republicans so arrogant to think that they can throw one of their own (Lott) under the bus and not expect it to come back to bite them?

Idiots.