>Pardon the smile on my face this morning. So long, Karl, we won't miss you....
Mike, Mike, Mike ... the only person more pleased about this turn of events than you are is ... Karl Rove. This is what is known as The Big Payoff.
Not only is he denying the dems a huge fund-raising tool but he himself becomes a huge fund-raising tool - his worth as a lobbyist, strategist, access peddler etc now has a 15 month shelf life. He has labored long and hard in the vineyards and now gets the wine. This is kind of a Washington tradition. Andy Card got his a while back, now it's Karl's turn.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
