The next time Karl Rove’s doughy face appears on Fox News, you might want to allow this thought to enter your consciousness: “Is that man a felon, and if so, why is he getting time on a major network?”
Documents released last week by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee leave many unanswered questions. But one thing [...]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers may call Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to testify publicly before Congress sometime in the fall about their role in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys and what President George W. Bush knew about the plan and when he knew it.
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee took an important first step by interviewing former Bush White House advisor Karl Rove. But the truth about the Don Siegelman case will not come out unless Congress conducts a thorough investigation and uses that information to confront Rove, and others, with much tougher questions than have been posed so far.
ThinkProgress dug into the Alaska state archives and pulled out this gem that clearly shows Palin to be a hypocrite of the highest order:
In recent weeks, right-wing groups have been pushing the myth that health care reform will somehow kill seniors. One of the most high profile voices pushing this lie has been Sarah Palin, [...]
Reports in both the mainstream and Web press indicate that Karl Rove, in his testimony before representatives of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, denied involvement in the Don Siegelman case. There is only one problem with those reports: They are not true.
Karl Rove’s defenders have contended that “Bush’s Brain” was much too busy as White House senior advisor to keep up with Alabama politics.
But the U.S. House Judiciary Committee released documents and testimony yesterday showing that Rove did keep up with Alabama politics–including the legal difficulties of former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman.
Rove even received an “Alabama [...]
Political adviser Karl Rove and other officials inside George W. Bush’s White House pushed for the firing of a key federal prosecutor because he wasn’t cooperating with Republican plans for indicting Democrats and their allies before the 2006 election, according to internal documents and depositions.
The evidence, which House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers released Tuesday [...]
Please see our in-depth report on Rove’s role in the firing of New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias here.
Editor’s note: The House Judiciary Committee has just released more than 5,000 pages of new documents that the panel said implicates former White House poltical adviser Karl Rove in the firings of several U.S. attorneys dismissed for [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said lawmakers have reached an agreement to vote on a plan Thursday to add $2 billion to the “cash for clunkers” rebate program.
President Barack Obama said more than $775 million of the $1 billion in funding to finance the program has already been spent and will be completely wiped out [...]
Obama administration officials are engaged in talks that may result in White House Counsel Gregory Craig’s resignation, the Wall Street Journal reported early Tuesday.
The Journal reported that Craig has had “a rocky tenure” over some national security issues that have become “political liabilities” for President Obama.
“These include the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, [...]
