Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove

Karl RoveKarl Rove, who was former president George W. Bush‘s political strategist for decades, including eight years in the White House, will make his second appearance before a Tennessee audience in two years, and this appearance, on January 20 at Rhodes College, will apparently be a closed affair like the previous one — Rove’s 2008 keynote address at the state Republican Party’s annual “Statesmen’s Dinner” in Nashville. The exclusiveness of...  

The President Is No B+: In fact, he's got the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year. (Karl Rove, 12/17/09, Wall Street Journal) There are many factors that explain it, including weakness abroad, an unprecedented spending binge at home, and making a perfectly awful health-care plan his signature domestic initiative. But something else is happening. Mr. Obama has not governed as the centrist, deficit-fighting, bipartisan...  

Democrat Ronnie Earle's entry into the 2010 election sweepstakes recalls his legal clash more than a decade against Kay Bailey Hutchison - and her political guru, Karl Rove. Rove was Hutchison's political adviser in 1993 when a grand jury under...  

Here is video of Karl Rove talking with Greta van Susteren talking about President Obama going back on his word to hold a debate on Health Care in public with "C-Span" cameras there. Greta played multiple clips of Obama making that promise as a candidate, which he has never done in the entire course of the Health Care Debate. The deals the Democrats have made in both the House and Senate have been done behind closed doors with secrecy a papal...  

There are no words. None. On second thought, I suppose there are words, but few that are Ecorazzi-appropriate. Karl Rove appeared on The O’Reilly Factor this week to discuss the many ways in which President George W. Bush was an excellent green leader. Yes, you read that correctly: President Bush was a green leader. What the? [...]  

Ever since Liz Cheney floated her father as a possible presidential contender in 2012, rumors have swirled that the former VP may be thinking about such a run. Now, a group of right-wing activists is unveiling a new organization — “Draft Dick Cheney 2012.” This morning on Fox News, former Bush political adviser Karl Rove summarily [...]  

Publisher Simon & Schuster is taking the boldest step against e-books, by announcing that it will delay the digital edition of about 35 leading titles in early 2010. The move -- scheduling the e-book release four months after hardcovers...  

Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal columnist and former adviser to George W. Bush, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the Copenhagen climate conference. Things quickly wound off course, however, when O'Reilly pointed out that Rove and President Bush didn't have much interest in global warming. This seems to offend Rove, who responds by painting Bush as an admirable green leader, but including a caveat that this was all just in case global...  

Karl “Rove you long time” sex scandal breaksCreative Loafing Tampa... opposite holds true in many Asian countries, where China doll white is a look to strive for, and skin-lightening products fly off supermarket shelves. ...  

White House political adviser Karl Rove discusses former ambassador Joseph Wilson's journey to Niger with syndicated columnist Robert Novak. In the conversation, Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, is mentioned as a CIA agent . Novak will publicly reveal Plame Wilson's CIA status in his next column, apparently as part of an effort to discredit her husband (see and ). Novak has already learned of Plame Wilson's CIA status ; when he mentions...  

Fox News contributor Karl Rove asserted, "Since President Obama came to office, the federal deficit has grown by $1.46 trillion," falsely suggesting that Obama is responsible for the entirety of the increased deficit. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office, which calculated that the government recorded a $1.4 trillion deficit in fiscal 2009, projected before Obama took office that the deficit for fiscal 2009 would be $1.2 trillion...  

By Garance Franke-Ruta As President Obama prepared to address the nation about his Afghanistan policy, former vice president Richard Cheney and former White House strategist Karl Rove led the Republican charge to shape perceptions of it in separate media appearances that were published and aired Tuesday morning. Speaking to Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei of Politico, Cheney repeated his oft-stated concern about Obama projecting "weakness" and...  

In an interview on NBC's Today, Fox News contributor Karl Rove falsely claimed that in 2007, Barack Obama "didn't speak out" against the Bush administration's war strategies for Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, Obama advocated prioritizing the conflict in Afghanistan and repeatedly criticized Bush's Iraq war policy. Rove: Obama "in no position whatsoever to criticize what President Bush did." In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Rove...  

Above: Fox News Analyst Karl Rove Karl Rove, The Wall Street Journal: Obama Can Win in Afghanistan: If the President Keeps His Nerve, He’ll Get the Country’s Support. Obama cannot win with Afghanistan. If the president keeps getting on the country’s nerves, we’ll get at his support. ‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We [...]  

WASHINGTON –  In this week’s address, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama offered their best Christmas wishes to families across the country, and expressed their gratitude to the men and women of the American military and their families for their service to the country.  The First Couple encouraged Americans to visit www.whitehouse.gov to learn how they can show their support to our soldiers and their loved ones. The full...