That’s gonna leave a mark

Read as Frank Rich of the New York Times rips apart the assault on reality that is Karl Rove’s new memoir: There’s a good reason why Rove’s memoir is titled “Courage and Consequence,” not “Truth or Consequences.” Its spin is so uninhibited that even “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of…

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Thank you Captain Obvious

In his new memoir, Republican strategist Karl “Turdblossom” Rove, a master of the obvious, notes notes that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration’s credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war. Rove also calls the 2003 invasion of Iraq…

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Gay marriage isn’t undermining the institution of marriage in America….

…but those “family values” conservatives sure are! “Karl Rove and his wife, Darby, were granted a divorce last week,” family spokeswoman Dana Perino told Politico. “The couple came to the decision mutually and amicably, and they maintain a close relationship and a strong friendship. There will be no further comment,…

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