Rove Exposed: How Bush's Brain Fooled AmericaISBN: 978-0-471-78708-2
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240 pages
November 2005
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Now we know: Karl Rove "is the co-president of the United States."
(And you thought it was Dick Cheney.) "Karl Rove thinks it, and
George W. Bush does it," write James Moore and Wayne Slater in
Rove Exposed: How Bush's Brain Fooled America, an update of
their bestselling Bush's Brain. In the latest attempt to
understand the political mastermind who gives liberals the vapors,
Moore (a TV news correspondent) and Slater (Austin, Tex., bureau
chief for the Dallas Morning News) go through a laundry list of
Rove's alleged wrongdoing: that while running a Texas gubernatorial
campaign, he may have planted a bug in his own office to cast
suspicion on the opposing candidate; that he had a pet FBI agent
open investigations of top Democratic officials in Texas at key
moments in elections; that he held "dirty trick seminars" on
campaign espionage for fellow College Republicans; that he told
Robert Novak that Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for
the CIA. (Oh wait, that was Official A.) Rove, they conclude, is
one bad dude: "If Karl Rove were not sitting in his office in the
White House, there might have been no war in Iraq; there would be
underprivileged children still attending Head Start programs . . .
there would be low income families getting health care . . . there
would be competitive bidding on contracts to rebuild Iraq instead
of delivery of deals to Halliburton . . . there would have been no
California recall . . . there would be a complete and honest report
from the 9/11 Commission . . . there would be real funding for
Homeland Security's First Responders [and] there would even be more
people with jobs." And every night, the Tooth Fairy would fill your
pillow with gold doubloons.
—Rachel Hartigan Shea (The Washington Post's "Book World " section, November 6, 2005)
—Rachel Hartigan Shea (The Washington Post's "Book World " section, November 6, 2005)