At the White House, the Spin Doctor Is Ill

[dweller]

While indictment fever gripped the Washington press corps this month, the president's spin doctor was incapacitated. An ailing Karl Rove could not help the
Republican search for a media cure. With temperature rising, the political physician was in no position to cure himself or anyone else.

Now, a media siege is underway at the White House. A dramatic convergence of legal proceedings and presidential politics has forced the Bush
administration into a fundamentally defensive crouch.

Fifty weeks ago, when President Bush hailed him as the political strategist who made a second term possible, Rove was the toast of Washington. Now -
even though he hasn't been indicted - it seems he's toast.

In Washington, where nothing succeeds like political success, an election victory is widely seen as proof of justification. Strip away the razzle-dazzle, and
you're left with a rather simple precept: Whatever works.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805T.shtml

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[Tom Joad]

1. I don't think Rove has many days left, politically speaking...

indicted or not.

[Erika]

3. He's become yet another corrupt liability

Bush will dump him.

[Burried News]

2. He'll become a recluse - best to step on him soon, I think.