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...after your opponent's strengths. That was Karl Rove's great gift to the Republican Party. If we translate that into Barack Obama's campaign, it would mean recognizing John McCain's strength is the perception he would be better for our national security, and Obama needs to go after that...
There is one substantive way that McClellan's appearance could help Hill Democrats in their battles with Bush. The President has blocked his former senior adviser Karl Rove from testifying before Congress by claiming his advice is protected by executive privilege. Stan Brand, a Democratic lawyer who advised Conyers' committee on McClellan's testimony, says McClellan's appearance undermines Bush's claim of privilege for Rove, and "weakens the public perception and maybe the judicial claim of privilege...
...Libby was later shown to have indeed leaked her identity, and was convicted of obstructing the inquiry into the scandal. (Bush commuted the sentence.) But we still don't know if Bush or Cheney knew they were peddling a lie in defending Libby or the other White House leaker, Rove. McClellan says he thinks Bush was deceived, just as he himself...
...facts are forthcoming ... on with the show! McClellan's testimony will primarily serve as a free publicity session for him, though it's possible the sheer spectacle of a onetime Bush loyalist denouncing his former colleagues will generate some anti-Bush heat for Democrats. As for it undermining Rove's claim of executive privilege in any meaningful way, that's a long shot. The White House has ordered the Justice Department not to pursue the contempt charges brought against Rove. Which means that for now, Democrats in Congress will have to make do with McClellan for their summer dose...
...Comprehensive immigration reform was the centerpiece of his effort to court the Latino voters whom strategists like [Karl] Rove and [Matthew] Dowd considered crucial to the party's future fortunes," Brownstein wrote. "It was also Bush's best chance for an important second-term legislative achievement after the collapse of his Social Security plan, not to mention an opportunity to make substantive progress against an entrenched problem. But Bush's overriding priority on unifying Republicans prevented him from achieving any of those goals. Instead, he was left with an immigration policy built solely around enforcement and symbolized by an exclusionary...