It's Card VS Rove As Karl Goes Down

Let the games begin, this is a downright dirty fight and is going to be a sight to behold. If this is true, I will be happier than one of those right-wing preacher guys celebrating the end-times. Can we please have a perp takedown on the front lawn of the White House? Picture it..... Karl Rove running across the WH lawn in his boxers. A police dog takes him down, they slap the cuffs on and drag him by the scruff of the neck to a waiting paddy wagon. OH HAPPY DAY!!!!! Oh well I can dream can't I? LOL Seriously though there does definitely seem to be people at odds in the WH. This would explain the lousy response to Katrina (Karl had kidney stones - ya right) and the Miers pick for SCOTUS. I certainly looks as if King George is distancing himself from his right-hand man. From MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" —so, Joe Wilson is challenging the main element of this administration, which was going to war with Iraq and saying they did it under false premises. It was a corrupt war, he‘s saying. That‘s it, isn‘t it? HOWARD FINEMAN, NBC CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: That‘s the point of the lance of this whole thing. Right now, my sense, in reporting this, Chris, is that the Bush family, political family, is at war with itself inside the White House. My sense is, it‘s—it‘s—it‘s—it‘s Andy Card, the chief of staff, and his people against Karl Rove, the brain. MATTHEWS: Right. FINEMAN: And that runs through a whole lot of things, whether it‘s Harriet Miers or Katrina. But it all starts with Iraq. And some submerged, but now emerging divisions within the administration over why we went into that war, how we went into that war and what was done to sell it. There are people are out for Karl Rove inside that White House, which makes his situation even more perilous. My understanding, from talking to somebody quite close to this investigation, is that they think there are going to be indictments and possibly Karl Rove could be among them, if not for the act of the leaking information about Valerie Plame, then perhaps for perjury, because he‘s now testified four times. And there are conflicts between what Matt Cooper told the grand jury and what Rove evidently told the jury himself. And Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, is an absolute stickler for detail who has no political axe to grind here, other than keeping his own credibility. Having put Judy Miller in jail, having gone to the lengths he had, my understand is, he has got some people here, not only Rove, but perhaps Scooter Libby, the vice president‘s chief of staff. MATTHEWS: I also get the sense he reads the law book. He doesn‘t care about the politics. (CROSSTALK) FINEMAN: That‘s what I meant. That‘s what I meant. He doesn‘t care about the politics. (CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, you just raised a curtain-raiser for me. I didn‘t even know this. You believe that the fight between those who may be headed toward indictment, the vice president‘s chief of staff, Karl Rove, there is a war between them and the people who are going to survive them, Andy Card, etcetera. FINEMAN: Yes. MATTHEWS: But is Andy Card saying now, here‘s his chance to prove the war was wrong? Is that what this—it‘s a shadow fight over that? FINEMAN: I think it‘s possible. I think it‘s possible. Look, when you are up, you‘re up big time. Karl Rove was the boy genius. MATTHEWS: Right. FINEMAN: Karl Rove could do no wrong. But now Karl Rove seems to have been caught overstepping on this. MATTHEWS: Right. FINEMAN: And now people are questioning everything about it. And it goes back. If you have to have an organizing principle, it‘s the war in Iraq. That‘s what it is. There is much more in the transcript including remarks by James Moore, co-author of , “Bush‘s Brain”, describing the way KKKarl operates: Well, there‘s a bunch of people in this state who will tell you he can play tough, because he‘s ruined their careers, Chris. Every part of his entire career has been about vengeance, going after people who somehow crossed him or his candidates and destroying them from the battlefield. So, the fact that he‘s accused of this surprises nobody down here who has watched him forever and ever. What surprise me, though, is this whole notion of bad memory on the part of Karl. You‘re talking about a guy who can still recall precinct results from 1890 elections. And to tell the grand jury or Fitzgerald or anyone that he doesn‘t recall meeting with Matt Cooper is just beyond the pale in terms of believability. MORE....