We are all Karl Rove's Bitch

I see no reason that we should pick solely on Tim Russert -- as deserving as he is and as good as it might feel.

You only have to look back at the detritus strewn around our national political landscape since 2000 to draw the conclusion that we have all been Karl Rove's bitches.

Illustrations below the fold.

A bifurcated economy where 1% thrive while most falter or simply tread water.

A series of no lobbyist left behind legislation for energy, pharmaceutical, insurance, and banking conglomerates.

A castrated press corps lapping gently at the hand which has wielded the snips.

Democrats (progressive and moderates) club fighting over the "soul of the party" as the ship of state founders on reef.

Thousands of our country persons dead or wounded -- their bodies and minds smashed against a monument of disastrous policy and outrageous ego.

An emerging SCOTUS with the empathy of Stalin and the acumen of ... Bush.  A justice system increasingly out of touch with the needs of our citizenry (unless you are fetal prospective citizenry.)

Hundreds of billions of dollars squandered from the treasury.  Wait, make that from potential future treasuries.

Need I continue?  

Tim Russert may be Karl Rove's bitch but he has much company.  

•  It is time for a bitch rising. n-t

  by jmaier on Mon May 08, 2006 at 04:07:15 PM PDT

  •  Count me in!

    And I did not become a bitch (I admit it and wear it proudly) yesterday. I worked long and hard for the title. Just ask my husband.

    by BrenP on Mon May 08, 2006 at 04:12:43 PM PDT

•  amen

  by cabinetman1 on Mon May 08, 2006 at 04:08:09 PM PDT

•  I'm Nobodys Bitch!

  I've been warning folks about this bullshit since 1981. I've been offering one of the few viable solutions on the web since 1994.

  It ain't my fault if folks thought I was just a friggin street musician. You all are so freakin obsessed with finding the solutions among your "celebrities."

  If you want to defeat the Borg, you have to become Q.

  It's that freakin simple, and it don't take a street musician to figure it out. All of the technology necessary for the global ascension of our species to Son of Man already exists.

  Or maybe folks would rather wait for BushCo to bring the wrath of our stupidity to life in the name of Jesus.

  50 Ways To Dump The Dubya

  by Subway Serenade on Mon May 08, 2006 at 04:15:24 PM PDT

•  Boy, that's painful but,

  frankly, it's a good example of tough love.  We need to hear these kinds of things, it helps us correct our course.  Karl is a villain if there ever was one.

  by tarheelblue on Mon May 08, 2006 at 04:22:07 PM PDT

•  Correction: 'We are all Karl Rove's Bitches'

  (I'm a bitch for sentence construction...)

  by Rudyard on Mon May 08, 2006 at 04:37:32 PM PDT

  •  As the body politic, we are a collective Bitch.

    by jmaier on Mon May 08, 2006 at 04:41:55 PM PDT

    •  Not Me! I refuse to be!

      Here's the way Karl Rove gets to people they let HIM define evertying for them--not me any longer!

      Here's his BIG PLAN for this election and other elections it's very simple:

      Mr. Rove's playbook is drawn straight from the one that worked for him in 2004: first, get conservatives fired up enough to vote, a particularly important goal in a midterm election, in which turnout is usually quite low. Second, make sure the election is not just about Mr. Bush's performance, but also about the choice between a Republican Party defined on its own terms and a Democratic Party defined on Mr. Rove's.

      http://www.nytimes.com/...

      I got out of his cult! Deprogrammed myself! Karl Rove will NOT RULE!!!

      by Wary on Mon May 08, 2006 at 06:09:06 PM PDT

•  Attack Competence 'Dilbert - Way of The Weasel'

  I found a part of "Dilbert and the Way of The Weasel" that describes Rove perfectly - always undermine people on the things where they are strong and you are weak. If they are accurate and don't make mistakes, call them "obsessed with detail." If they aren't clock watches and regularly put in a little more than 40 hours, say they "don't manage their time effectively." This is not fresh insight, but it must be repeated until everyone understands it.

  We saw this with Gore where he was portrayed as the creation of media consultants because they helped him pick his shirts, while Bush was buying that turkey ranch (without horses, which he can't ride)and buying his precious little cowboy Halloween costumes.

  And that worked so well that we had the Swiftboaters attacking Kerry on his war record, even though a year later the press went to Vietnam and found witnesses to the battle.

  But in the end, the consequence was that we ended up with Rove as the poisonous little queen (no pun intended) bee surrounded by layer upon layer of incompetents, suckups, and imbeciles, who have nearly destroyed the country, presumably because he had killed off every competent person in his circle. Now he fights with Cheney and Rumsfeld, who at least had the sense to partner up rather than try to kill each other off.

  One question is whether or not blogswarms will be able to help counter those tactics in the future. The bigger question is whether people that understand this are going to have their "Mad as hell.." moment and go door to door, talk to people, and then give people rides to the polls on election day.

  by bernardpliers on Mon May 08, 2006 at 05:44:37 PM PDT

  •  You BET we will!

    Oranize, mobilize, sign up, suit up, and show up!

    by Wary on Mon May 08, 2006 at 06:11:23 PM PDT

    •  Boots on the ground !

      That's what it's all about

      by bernardpliers on Mon May 08, 2006 at 06:23:55 PM PDT

•  Well there are Bitches...

  ...then there are BITCHES.

  ...My choice for number 1?   Mister ten thousand Lawyer watchin', count every votein', concession on speed dial...JFK II.

  ...sonner or later John Kerry is going to have to face the fact that he bent over big-time and took it up the tube for 62 million Americans on November 3rd 2004.
  

  by Blue Shark on Mon May 08, 2006 at 07:53:16 PM PDT