Joe Hack

America can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Karl Rove, President Bush’s longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, marking a turning point for the Bush presidency. Mr. Rove’s departure removes one of the White House’s most hated and polarizing figures, and undoubtedly signals the end of the lame duck administration’s role in shaping major domestic policy decisions. Mr. Rove, generally known as ‘George Bushs brain’ recently revealed his plans for quitting to the The Wall Street Journal.

A Whitehouse spokesman said “Obviously it’s a big loss to us, “he’s a great colleague, a good friend, and a brilliant mind. He will be greatly missed, but we know he wouldn’t be going if he wasn’t sure this was the right time to be giving more to his family, his wife Darby and their son. He will continue to be one of the president’s greatest friends.”

Mr. Rove, 56 years old, has been embroiled in many White House controversies in Mr. Bush’s second term, and faced investigation — but somehow miraculously escaped indictement — in the scandalous White House leak case that brought down Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. He also has become a target of intense scrutiny in Congress over the firings of a number of U.S. attorneys in an alleged attempt to subvert the American justice system, a charge far more serious than that which saw Nixon booted out of office. Mr. Rove and his political operatives in the White House had some involvement with the decision, but the extent of their role remains murky, because the White House has shamefully asserted executive privilege in refusing to comply with congressional demands for documents and interviews, including with Mr. Rove. Mr. Rove’s departure is likely to lessen the intensity of that potential constitutional clash.

Mr Rove was allegedly the mastermind behind the unholy alliance between the Bush neo-con camp and the loony-toon religious right that swept the republicans to power initially but which has since degenerated into bitter bickering over failed expectations. Whenever there were dirty tricks to be played in the political arena, reputations to be ruined, decent men and women to be smeared, there are those who claimed to see the hand of Karl Rove at work. So his departure will be seen by many as a serious loss to Bush, but a huge victory for America and the American people.

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