Rove ‘Proud’ of Waterboarding

Compassionate conservatism at work. One wonders if George W. Bush’s presidential library will feature an interactive waterboarding exhibit.

Rove Speaks: It’s Everybody Else’s Fault

Washington memoirs are all about settling scores. Karl Rove’s “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight” takes that tradition to new and self-parodying heights. To read Rove’s recollections of George W. Bush’s White House is to believe that, for eight years, men of “courage and moral More…

Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias Reponds to Rove Attacks

Some of the least convincing score-settling in “Courage and Consequences” comes when Karl Rove attempts to rebut the charge that he politicized the appointment of U.S. attorneys — the chapter dealing with this is titled “Rove: the Myth.” For one thing, Rove admits filing three complaints about then-U.S. Attorney David More…

Rove: I Wanted FedEx CEO Fred Smith to Replace Rumsfeld, But Democrats Would Have Been Too Mean in the Hearings

On page 466 of “Courage and Consequences,” Karl Rove goes through an elaborate tap-dance to explain that firing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in early 2006 would have seemed political and “damaged the military’s faith in Bush as commander in chief” — but that the White House wanted to do it More…

Rove: Clinton Said My 2006 Midterm Strategy Was ‘Sheer Genius’

I’ve got a copy of Karl Rove’s “Courage and Consequence,” which is as chock-full of remembered conversations as a D.C. memoir should be. The first conversation that jumped out at me, from page 467, is Rove’s recollection of a pep talk Bill Clinton gave him at the November 13, 2006 More…

Rove’s 2010 Senate Picks

Karl Rove, who is launching his new book today, by way of donations has already taken sides in several 2010 Senate races. Rove’s 2009 contributions below:

Arkansas Senate: Gilbert Baker ($2,400)

Florida Senate: Marco Rubio ($1,000)

Missouri Senate: Roy Blunt ($1,000)

Pennsylvania Senate: Pat Toomey ($1,000)

Bush Campaign Veterans Make Electoral Comeback

For a candidate making his first bid for office, Tim Griffin couldn’t be in better shape. One week after announcing his campaign against Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), the incumbent in Arkansas’s most Democratic-leaning district, Griffin had raised $130,000. A Public Policy Polling survey More…

Lautenberg Demands Investigation Into Chris Christie

Two months before the 2006 election, then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie let it be known that there was an investigation into a rental deal made by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who was fighting a tight re-election race against GOP candidate Tom Kean. The news dinged Menendez, who was haunted by More…

Karl Rove Appearing at Fundraiser for Virginia GOP Candidate

Republican lawyer Barbara Comstock, a candidate for a swing House of Delegates seat in northern Virginia, is holding a fundraiser tomorrow in Washington with a special appearance by Karl Rove. Comstock’s ties to the highest levels of Republican power are not exactly a secret—she’s been called a “master More…

Karl Rove on Novak: ‘A Principled Person’

The ‘Architect’ himself, the man who dodged an indictment in the Valerie Plame affair, speaks out on the late Robert D. Novak:

He was a remarkable journalist and a principled person.