In the 5th, a Trifecta of "Superdelegate Sally", "Daddy Greenbacks" and "That Wascally Wove"

Y’all up for a little political voyeurism? Well, alright now. The Huffington Post has an interactive political donor map here that reveal who’s been giving to whom and how much was given. As it’s a HuffPo production, its got a decided celeb/entertainment slant but it’ll get you where you need to go.

And site, here, though less splashy, posts odds. Sweet. Who's gotcha 7-5, baby?

We checked out our ‘hood at the Huff site and we appear to be living among acolytes for the Messiah. And the Ronulans are well-represented, as well.

Speaking of Huffington, Arianna. She opines on Clinton’s wins in Texas and Ohio and comes to the conclusion that, yep…. Rove was responsible. These people…… these people.

H/T: We honestly don't remember. If we've boosted this from anyone in the Theocracy, let us know and we'll give due props.

We Can't Believe It Took Us This Long to Post This Guy's Picture... umm... twice.

The obits on Karl Rove’s political career are starting to roll in and with that comes the predictable noise that we have heard about Republican administrations for years and years. These obits follow a pattern of crediting Rove with Bush’s Presidential victory in 2000, the stunning midterm Congressional elections in ’02 and the 2nd term victory in ’04.

These obits explain that because of “divisiveness”, “wedge issues”, “polarizing politics” and the like, the Republicans at first succeeded in exploiting the electorate but eventually, because of it, lost control of the House and Senate in the ’06 midterms.

As sure as the Sun rises in the East, when topics or issues are brought up that people are uncomfortable dealing with in an honest fashion like race-based preferences or partial-birth abortion, the terms above start getting tossed around.

Of course, this is not what lost the Republicans control of both houses in Congress last November. The Republicans got their ass kicked because they got away from what got them there in the first place. Republicanism as defined by Reagan and later by Newt Gingrich when Republicans took control of the House in ’94 involved a belief in minimalism and fiscal restraint as practiced by government.

Where did that go? The last 4 or 5 years in particular has seen a Republican-controlled Congress and White House absolutely blow-out the stops when it came to spending. This was Bush’s flawed notion of you-can-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too “Compassionate Conservatism”. Everyone was still waiting for that “Conservative” part to kick in and we will fight anyone on the block for the right to throw the first shovel-full of dirt onto the grave containing that term.

A combination of this out-of-control spending with a complete lack of attention to the border and illegal immigration (perhaps, “inattention” is the wrong word. The events of this past June and July proved that plenty of attention was paid to it... just so happens that too many Republicans were on the wrong side of the issue), resulted in a large bloc of voters comprised of the conservative base of the Party along with the independent swing voters, who formerly delivered for Bush and the Republicans, scratching their heads while looking at both the Democrats and Republicans and asking themselves, “What the hell is the difference?” Hello, ass kicking!

It is our hope that Democrat strategists take to heart what has been offered up thus far regarding those hate-filled zealots in the Republican Party and that those of the Republican Party kindly remove their craniums from their respective derrieres and get back to the basics of Conservatism.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/38c1f2d4-49c1-11dc-9ffe-0000779fd2ac.html

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fbe0b986-4a8d-11dc-95b5-0000779fd2ac.html

One Less Person for Volvo Drivers to Hate

One of the most controversial Presidential advisers in recent history called it quits. Karl Rove resigned on Monday, ending a relationship with President Bush that started in the early '70s.

Attached article points out that despite Rove's alleged brilliance, he didn't succeed in being able to push through 3 of Bush's top domestic agenda goals in his 2nd term: Reforming (the sadly unlaughable joke that is) Social Security, overhauling the tax code, and reforming immigration policy (via the Rube Goldberg Amnesty Bill).

So what happened? Did Rove lose his touch? Some would argue that Bush became distracted by the War in Iraq and could not devote as much energy as he should have to his 2nd term goals. Probably not. "Distracted" is standing over a map of Vietnam and personally picking out bombing targets a' la Lydon Johnson (and seriously, how cool would that have been?.... "Oops, did I slip? Is that the Eiffel Tower I just chose to bomb? Mac, you sly ol' dog, you. Sneakin' in a map of Europe like that.")

In the end, we thought Rove to be like the quarterback of a football team. Too much credit when things went well and too much blame when they did not. For a man whom many thought was responsible for the Chicago fire and the kidnapping of Lindbergh's baby, the truth lay somewhere in the middle.

.... and somewhere, Lee Atwater sniffs dismissively, "Piker."

Happy Trails, Karl.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070814/D8R0GJQO0.html