Will Karl Rove Ride Old Sparkie?

Now that he isn't a presidential adviser and isn't protected by the Attorney General, Congressman John Conyers, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has subpoenaed Karl Rove to testify about the politicization of the Justice Department under Fredo. In particular, Conyers is looking for information on the firing of the U.S. Attorneys and the politics behind the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. "It's time for him to tell the truth." said Conyers. I thought that was what his book deal with editor Mary Matalin was about. Should we set up a defense fund for Monica Goodling?

The subpoena has stiffened the resolve of Senate Republicans to submarine Eric Holder's nomination as Attorney-General. Again today, he fired back at requests that he should promise not to prosecute Bush officials who may have committed crimes. With Conyers firing a salvo across the deck of Republicans in the other House, the Senate crowd are playing hardball on the Holder nomination.

My advice, which will be ignored, is for the Republicans to let it go. If crimes were committed, they should be punished. Bush isn't coming back and the party won't speak of him for another forty years just as Democrats didn't mention LBJ until this year.

Rove is an albatross around the party. He essentially blew the 2000 race, creating a constitutional crisis, only won the 2004 race with one state and lost massively in the 2006 congressional elections. His subalterns ran the vilest Presidential campaign this year and got their clocks cleaned. He's poison and always was. He's this year's favorite to win the Henry Kissinger Failing Upways Award. Republicans can not regroup and rebuild until all his kind are gone. A bipartisan solution would be to make Rove the scapegoat for all the Bush crimes, including torture, and have him ride Old Sparkie.