So Karl Rove is resigning. I got up in the middle of the night last night and since I was awake I flipped on my computer. And lo and behold Karl Rove is resigning. Now, I have to admit that when I first saw this, given the way it was announced I figured it was just one of those late in an administration departures. Lots of big wigs don’t stay around until the final day of an eight year term. They leave to get a jump start on the rest of their lives and leave it to the B Team to round out the second term.
But then I thought, who am I kidding? Am I channelling Jay Carney? The innocent explanation is never right with these guys.
Of course, if there’s more to this resignation, it’s not necessarily that easy to narrow down the list of possibilities since Rove is connected to pretty much every instance of high-level wrongdoing. And then there’s the extra added wrinkle that if anything the White House’s ability to keep Rove off the witness stand is decreased, if only marginally, by his leaving the White House. With the recent news of cutbacks on funding of human intelligence in the intel budget, there’s the possibility that there were no more CIA agents whose cover could be blown and he decided to move on to greener pastures.
So what do you think? Why now?
Late Update: Special Rove resignation presentation of TPMtv’s look at Karl Rove’s 2006 voter suppression speech …
