Rove's Message to America

By the time the Bush administration disappears into the political sunset they will have left many indisputable marks on the American landscape – scar tissue if you will. While Bush and Cheney and their goons have raped and pillaged among other things, the economy, habeas corpus, civil liberties, rights to privacy, individual economic security and the safety of Americans all over the world, perhaps their most lasting legacy will be their complete and total disregard for the US Constitution in general.

The irrefutable poster boy of their disregard for the Constitution is of course, Karl Rove. No one in American history has been so adept at turning an entire branch of the government into his personal playground and right wing vendetta factory. Rove’s politicizing of the justice department is a shameful chapter in the most pitiful administration in US history. With the blessing of Bush and Cheney, Rove has routinely used the justice department to pursue political enemies with criminal indictments and destroyed good names and good people with whom he often simply disagreed.

Of course Rove has famously used other entities for political persecution. His outing of Valerie Plame as a covert spy by using right wing mole, Robert Novak in the Washington Post would be track one on his greatest hits collection. Of course that one is duet with Scooter Libby.

So with such a rich history of thumbing his nose at our country’s most treasured and revered document figuratively, we shouldn’t be surprised when he does it literally. Rove refused and ignored a House subpoena to testify Thursday, invoking ‘executive privilege’, something a White House advisor cannot even do. Committee chair, Linda Sanchez ruled the invocation invalid, but recent history of the Democrats threatening everything under the Washington sun only to do nothing would lead me to believe that Rove measured this move carefully and with a chuckle under his breath.

Karl Rove belongs in prison. Not jail; prison. He should be shroud in orange and fearing for his prostate’s safety. He should be traded as currency like cigarettes and vintage porn. Rove shouldn’t have a decent meal until his release when he hobbles out with the assistance of a walker. He is a criminal and an awful, arrogant man that should surrender his freedom.

It’s not going to happen, though. Of course if you or I used the courts to punish our enemies we would be arrested and carted off to county. If you or I had given the middle finger to our home owners association, much less the United States Congress, we may never be heard from again. Not Rove. He knows against whom he is facing off. He knows their game and inability to act when it comes to executing the reach and extent of the law. It’s like the sign in the convenience store that says, “we prosecute all shoplifters to the fullest extent of the law”. No they don’t. Neither do the Democrats. Karl Rove knows this better than anyone. So he continues to pilfer from the pages of the constitution with the protection of his president, the wavering attention of the media and the toothless bark of our government.