One more detail. Rove's mistress is Katharine Armstrong's business partner

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/karl-roves-connection-to_b_15750.html

According to the White House, Rove was one of the first people in the administration informed about it. After being notified by Andy Card that there had been a hunting accident involving Cheney, Rove picked up the phone and called ranch owner Katharine Armstrong. He didn't have to call 411 to get the number. Turns out that Rove and Armstrong go way back. As reported in the New Yorker , Katharine Armstrong's dad, beef industry titan Tobin Armstrong, helped finance Rove's first business, an Austin-based direct mail firm called Karl Rove + Company. The 2003 article also mentions a hunting trip to the Armstrong Ranch Rove and Bill Frist had planned (though later canceled for appearance's sake after Frist supplanted Trent Lott in a Rove-engineered coup). So Rove was definitely not unfamiliar with the "scene of the crime."

But back to the Boy Genius, who has another, even more interesting, connection to Katherine Armstrong and the Cheney shooting: his alleged long-running affair with her business partner, Karen Johnson. Armstrong and Johnson are lobbyists who have managed to score some lucrative assignments lobbying the Bush administration, including a successful effort at getting the Dept. of Agricultural to make a deal with their client Prionic, a drug company that makes tests for mad cow disease.

Johnson and Rove have long been the subject of gossip and raised-eyebrows deep in the heart of Texas. "For years," a Lone Star State source told me, "it's been an article of faith in Austin that Karen and Karl are an item, and that their affair helped Karen land some plum appointments and clients."

[kaygore]

1. I thought that Rove was gay (closet but gay)

which is fine but not if you go around trying to demonize and marginalize gays and use them the rile up the unreligious far right.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Rove's got a wife (a less-attractive female version of himself)...

...and I've heard the "allegations" too, but as the article states, Johnson's reaped some handsome rewards from the "affair"...real or imaginary.

Below: Rove's wife (on the right):

[glitch]

8. Perhaps in DC a beard wife isn't cool enough - you need a beard mistress

too. Just speculating. :)

[iconoclastNYC]

24. ding ding ding ding

This man is not straight.

[blm]

11. At DC parties Rove's girlie drunkenly hits on other women to "join them"

Imagine how drunk the women must be who agree to that scene?

[laheina]

13. Ew, ew, ew!!! nt

[mitchum]

20. I find that appalling. That's really hard to get my head around.

Seems like it would take 5 foot drifts of snow to serve as an enticement to that scene.

[blm]

21. Or 5 Long Island ice teas. heh...you KNOW the deal at these affairs, m.

I KNOW you do. ;)

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. What a sunny . . .

. . . Nazi smile.

[slor]

6. "Sieg...

Smile".

[soulcore]

3. heh.

A nice little pre-valentine weekend retreat with the mistress. How quaint.

No wonder it took 22 hours to get the stories straight.

[hwmnbn]

4. I'm going to gag and throw up.......

at just the thought of turd-blossom getting freaky with this woman.

:puke: :puke:

[rodeodance]

7. here it is---that groupie of Texans.

[AValdoux]

9. Another Rove/Armstrong Connection

Karen Armstrong's mother was on Haliburton's Board of Directors when Cheney was hired by Haliburton.

I think Rove masterminded the handling of this entire thing to appear as Cheney's screw-up. He was probably the first one Armstrong called.

Does anyone think this is Rove's way of cutting loose a VP who is dragging down the White House & hence the GOP? Cheney can resign shortly because he has personal and/or health issues. Then Rove can hand pick who he wants to run in 2008 & appoint them the new VP. Cheney can then be blamed for everything (Iraq, Plame-gate, etc). Bush can then run his administration as a reformer now that the evil Darth Vader is gone.


AValdoux

[Wordie]

17. That scenario has worried me...

but if Cheyney were to go right now, everyone would presume it was for political, not health reasons, so I think it would make Bush look even weaker. Bush couldn't afford to blame Cheney without exposing his own failure to be in charge. Who would want to be VP of an admin like that? Any new VP right now would be brought down with it.

If Cheyney were to go some time from now, though, for believable health reasons, the situation might be different.

[cookiebird]

22. Astute.

And your thoughts make a great deal of sense in this political venue.

[SpiralHawk]

10. The Swiss Miss and the "Johnson" Girl

Holy Sex Scandal, Batman !

[Syncronaut Seven]

12. And that would be Texas politics in a nutshell

.

[cantstandbush]

14. Rove's real mistress is "Jeff Gannon." n/t

[grasswire]

15. a few more comments here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2461006

[tanyev]

16. Good catch. K&R.

[HughBeaumont]

18. How does Pigshit get ONE woman, let alone TWO?

Same with Cheney, same with ANY of those Republifuckers?

Guess looks don't mean shit when you gots unadulterated POWER.

[mitchum]

19. Karl. Rove's. Mistress.

Why would ANY woman fuck that pig without that whole shared assets thing?
I assume his wife is just craven...but mistress???!!!

[blindpig]

23. Shocking! What will Karl's leather slave say? n/t