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Rove On Hurricanes In August: "The Republicans Can't Seem To Get A Break"

Priorities, priorities.

Check out this Karl Rove quote buried in a Fox News article about the threat Hurricane Gustav poses to the GOP's convention plans:

"The Republicans can't seem to get a break when it comes to August and when it comes to the weather," said Rove, a FOX News analyst. "I know this is being thought a lot about in Washington and at the White House and discussed and I suspect they will monitor it carefully and figure out what to do."

Yeah, Katrina (which hit in August 2005) was really rough on those Republicans, no question about it.

Special thanks to TPM Reader AC for the catch.


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Wretched

That is the word!

Doesn't that unpatriotic blasphemously named wind-and-rain pattern know that McCain was locked in a cell for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS?

That audacity to blow your way into the GOP convention headlines.

It would probably rain on Iran too, UNCONDITIONALLY.

POW POW POW

twin city threats
GUSTAV=MCCAIN
BUSH=HANNA

THREATEN US

twin city threats GUSTAV=MCCAIN BUSH=HANNA

You are missing the greatest threat Minnesota faces.

The states IQ average is expected to fall by 15 points with all those Republicans visiting.

Only 15?

Bottom-1%-of-his-class-McCain is good for a 10-12 point drop by himself

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Don't worry.  It's just convention bounce.  Totally ecpected.

whats the margin of error.

New McCain Fear Mongering Ad

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But it will go back up again when Pawlenty leaves.

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It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

I submit that it's because God doesn't like the Republicans. Can Pat Robertson can confirm this?

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Excellent. I was going to say this but ya beat me to it.

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Didn't the crazies pray for rain tonight on Obama? Well, it may be a little Joke by God.

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Well God seems to not understand who the Rapture Right is. I'm starting to think He has no respect for the Book of Revelations at all.

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Do ya think they really pissed Him off this time?

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I know they pissed us off. That's enough for me.

Yeah... deny science and global warming much?

McCain: My heart goes out to all those affected by hurricane Gustav and especially to those who have lost their homes. As some of you might know, there was a time in my life were I was without a home.
just watch...

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If McCain can blame his love of ABBA (who didn't even get together until 1972) on his POW status than he can cerainly blame the hurricane on it.

I'm losing track of the levels of Irony involved in Gustav.

This must be three.

Now throw Kanye West into the mix and it adds a couple more.

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Does McSame wish he could be Kanye West?  No problem!  Get him to visit http://BeKanyeNow.COM/

Oh, I forgot.  Intertoobz-challenged.  OK, have him call 877-BeKanye.  I hear he's already mastered cellphones.

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LOL!

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Lets face it, God is a Democrat.

Amen!

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Well, I'm an atheist, but if we go by the Book, I'm pretty sure we'd have to classify him as a Socialist. He's only favoring the Democrats right now because they're better than the alternative.

Acts 2:44-45

All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

Acts 4:34-37

There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. There was a Levite, a native of Cyprus, Joseph, to whom the apostles gave the name Barnabas (which means "son of encouragement"). He sold a field that belonged to him, then brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

I'd like to add a couple more thoughts from that book, on which Karl might want to reflect:

Proverbs 11

1 The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but accurate weights are his delight. When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. ... Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed. A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue. ... For lack of guidance a nation falls, but many advisers make victory sure. ... He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind...

so if the party of Rove "can't seem to get a break," maybe it's because

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

Love the Benjamin avatar!

Aye, in a word, karma.

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This was because they believed that the establishment of the Kingdom of God was eminent.... that it would occur in their lifetimes.

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I mean imminent....

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Blasphemer!

I'm enjoying the irony of a self-proclaimed atheist posting Scripture. Weird, but wonderful.

Jesus was definitely a Democrat. Old Testament God was more of a Goldwater Republican.

More of a Cheney Republican, really, actually, if the amount of slaughter he ordered when the Hebrews got back from Egypt is any guide.

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Yes - absolutely, since the Old Testament is nothing more than one long genocide perpetrated by the Hebrews with the help of Jehovah.

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God is a Progressive.....like many Democrats...but not all.

God = Peace through Justice
Empire = Peace through Victory

I eagerly await the "Obama is a witch doctor" e-mail.

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I think you are kidding and when it comes you'll be as "surprised" as the rest of us.

It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard ...

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall!

Profiteering is hard work.

"Act of God" is not covered in insurance policies.....nor in campaigns! As reported that some evangelica's are praying for rain tonight for B.O. speech, I can't help but wander if the big man upstairs is giving them what for!

Well, it may be that the Good Lord is responding to their prayers. He just might have a different take on time and place of delivery.

I have from good sources that the development of Gustav, and most modern hurricanes, was outsourced to another country, thus causing a shipping delay.

Wish onto others ...

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God is non-violent. We should not project our violent behavior on to Her.

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Please don't preach at me - talk to the guys who wrote the Old Testament.

If you don't recognize what that is all about - what can I say?

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We now that reality has a well-known liberal bias. Apparently that goes for the weather, too.

Just won't give Republican's a break? How about the people who depend on them for help?

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Only foold depend on Republicans for help these days.

A few years ago it wasn't so foolish to think the government (even if it was run by Republicans) might provide assistance in times of trouble, but these days that notion is stupidity squared.

Besides, the National Guard is busy helping other nations, who we gonna send?

Press reports during Katrina noted that one of the reasons so many parished in the storm is the fact that it hit towards the end of the month and many of the poor there had not received their goverment checks yet. This prevented them from being able to buy gas, or take other forms of transportation to get out. These were their tax dollars that rightfully should have come back and aided them. Whether the poor get the government that they deserve or not, I don't think it qualifies them as "fools".

Good to know that Rove is really concerned about the millions of Americans threatened by these storms...

good point

As the universe is displaying its indifference to the lives of those on the Gulf coast, Rove shows that he and the Republicans are just as indifferent.

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Wasn't there some Big Christian Right org last week that asked its members to pray for rain on Obama's speech tonight? The kicker being that if it didn't rain, that didn't mean that God was on Obama's side.

So since GOD is sending the GOP a big old Ecclesiastical FU, how will they interpret that?

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The same way it always is interpreted - that they were not in God's favor because they were not pious enough.

They think that God is impressed by such piety and can not see their mean intentions. We project, you decide.

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these republicans are no more "compassionate conservatives" than i am a socket wrench. these people are insensitive to the core.

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Bush is probably out at Camp David "training" to put sand in sandbags.

I can't believe this people. Is like they believe that USA is a nation of whiners... Oh wait!

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Of course all of those poor African American's stranded on their rooftops and left to starve at the Super Dome are all Republicans!

Rove is a heartless pig!

It just proves what we've suspected all along: Weather has a liberal bias.

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What a sick fuck. He thinks he's the victim?

A FOXfog enveloped him, he thought he was among friends.

Rove, Rove, go away,
Come again another day.
Rove, Rove, go away.
Come again some other day.
Little Johnny wants to play,

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No, don't bother to come back. Please.

This is so narcissistic it's hard to fathom. Dear Karl Rove, it was all within your power to avoid having Republican being associate with devastating hurricanes. All you needed to do what show a little empathy for your fellow human beings -- even the darker ones. Like you did for Florida hurrican victims during the previous election year.

Yeah, the greatest tragedy of Katrina was the negative impact on the GOP. Oh, and I guess a few people died and lost their homes or something.

What a f**king turd.

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that's because republicans SUCK at governing.

Maybe if they were better at it, they would catch "some breaks".

That's like saying a really sucky baseball player only sucks because the ball always takes a bad bounce.

Actually Karl, it's the Gulf Coast that can't a break, not Republicans. The departure of you and your party from government is one of the breaks they hope to catch.

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Giggle.

It's karma baby!

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somebody needs to call the WAAAAHHMbulance for poor Karl....

Karl, I am weeping uncontrollably at the BAD KHARMA that hovers over you like a mushroom cloud. But they are, alas, crocodile tears.

Karl Rove's philosophy from his own lips- Rove cares about Rove, via the aggrandizement of the Republican Party & the neocons' ascendance to & stranglehold on power.

Ergo, Rover doesn't need to even pretend anymore that he gives two shits about the people on the Gulf Coast, nor does his pal Georgie Bush.

I lost some former neighbors in that last one, you f_cker.

I generally don't get too worked up about the obnoxious, self-serving stuff Rove vomits up, but this is disgusting. The rule for Rove is that political perception is more important than people's lives. And you can say the same thing about Rovian politics and a callow Bush administration that places the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and the horror of Katrina below spin control and how it might play on Hannity & Colmes. Rove's GOP is a party of political smear jobs, not governing. He is a cancer.

http://pufferfish.typepad.com/

He is a cancer, indeed.
Although personally, I prefer to think of Rove as a boil on the ass of the body politic, one in need of a thorough lancing.

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A boil like that kept Rush Limbaugh out of Vietnam

Apparently, God wants Barack Obama to be President.

On July 30, Stuart Shepard of Focus on the Family posted a video on their website prompting Christians all over America to pray for rain to disrupt Senator Obama's acceptance speech tonight at Invesco Field.


YHWH draws straight with crooked lines

"No," said god.

Proving, once again, that Real God kicks Old Testament Comics God's ass, every time.

Dear Sweet Mother of Real God! Will the Republicans just STFU with their hurricane handwringing already?

I was thinking about that today. Weather seems to be great in Denver. I guess God is an elitist, black, muslim, country club, flag-burning jew.

Falwell must be pretty pissed right now.

Hmmmm..... what country does the name Gustav originate from? The irony is boiling.

Even the meaning though
http://www.yeahbaby.com/meaning-name-etymology.php?name=Gustav
It conjures up an image of Moses saying let my people go (evangelicals can't be stuck to the Repugs forever...)

That or we're in for a really shitty re-rebuilding in NOLA.

Like to lock Rove in an attic for a week, in humid 95 degree weather, with putrid polluted flood water rising slowly.

Implied in Rove's comment "...I suspect they will monitor it carefully and figure out what to do" is not that they will make adequate preparations for dealing with a possible disaster, but that they will decide how best to spin the inevitable failure to do anything substantial. If these people spent 10% of the time and effort on doing positive things as they do on lying about why X occurence wasn't their fault, the world would be a much happier place. They're not stupid, they're just malicious.

Book title suggestion for Al Franken: "Karl Rove Is a Big, Fat, Idiot".

Wait a minute - didn't one of those obnoxious religious guys claim a hurricane hit Florida because of Disneyland extending health benefits to gay partners?

Maybe Gustav's gunning for Larry Craig.

Yep. Damn Hurricans and Damn whiners with sign cards on the building tops, give Goodol'party a break. Leave'em alone...

Can you please die in silence?

The GOP deserves weather like Katrina, so there convince is in a fly over zone, just like GW did all those folks standing outside the Dome in NewOrleans.

The GOP deserves Gustav, so that no one hears anymore of their fearmongering for 4 whole days.

Let's pray that the convention demonstrates how once again the incompetence of this administration continues to show callous disregard of the citizens, while they stay at a convention instead of helping US citizens.

Just like that NewOrleanian cried...'my country has deserted me'

Let it be on display once again so Americans are reminded of the cost of the idiots.

It's always nice to be road kill for Republicans. I'm not surprised Rove's only regret over Katrina is the political fallout. Remember that it cooked Bush's goose and began his slide/plummet in the polls. As a consequence, he hates New Orleans because it made him look like a bum. Due to his power, his hostility has set the recovery back more than anything else, although there are plenty of other villains, starting with our Mayor who gets second place. He's merely incompetent and indiferent and is about as popular as Bush. We've got two more years of him, but at least he can't bomb Iran.

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Everyone knows the facts have an anti-GOP bias. Now it turns out that the weather does too.

Poor darlins.

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The never should have messed with NOLA.

Do you know the kind of women who have lived in that city since it was founded? I wouldn't fuck with NOLA - it has protection.

;)

well, now they have an excuse for bush not to go their convention.

repubs might also get the opportunity to do a 180 on what they did in katrina and come out smelling like roses.

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O I'd love - dearly - to give Karl Rove a break.

In the shin bones, the ear bones, the fat gut bones...

Republicans doesn't deserve a break...

Republican can't seem to get a break because they've screwed this nation up for 8 years. Perhaps, this should signal to them that even the nature is against their party.

The spirit of those people that died during Katrina is here to plague the Republican Party that screwed up this country up in the last seven years.

You know it's true -- someone will use this as evidence that Obama is the anti-Christ.

God's punishing the Repubs.

God's righteous wrath!

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Republicans don't deserve a break,....they've been let off the hook for 8 long years.

Plus the forecast is sunny in Denver,...where's the power of prayer when you need it.

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This is more of the "let them eat cake mentality". Who gives a rat's ass if two hurricanes are poised to hit the Gulf states in the space of a week? We're having the Republican convention during that time, don't ya know?

Frankly, if those 'canes do hit the U.S. next week, and coverage is focused on them, I have to consider that a plus for McCain.

The greater number of people who see him speak means the greater number of people turned off by seeing him speak.

Fewer is better.

Exactly.

McCain doesn't know how many homes he owns.

McCain adviser says health care = emergency room.

Rove says hurricanes are a bummer because they'll compete with the convention.

Hey, Time and Newsweek, does the old rule still apply? The one that says three examples make a trend?

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"The Republicans can't seem to get a break when it comes to August and when it comes to the weather," said Rove...

Well, considering the RNC convention will be held in September, Rove must be saying the break they can't get is a rain-out (or worse) of tonight's Mile High celebration.  Maybe Gustav was supposed to hit earlier and distract attention from the Dem convention?

He can't be complaining about Gustav taking audience away from the RNC convention.  The fewer people that tune in, the less sympathy they'll lose.  It's not as if they're hoping Dubya or Cheney get top ratings!

OTOH, if he's worried about another FEMA debacle...  Well, I'll help him wish it doesn't happen.  We're gonna kick his ass, regardless.  McSame is toast.

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Actually, the hurricane would be a break. The less folk see the Republicants the better they do.

Rove is ALWAYS a lying sack of s**t.

Yeah, this really sucks, what an inconvenience.

I really hope karma is a boomerang. This fucker will be dragging a ponderous chain indeed. There's little I wouldn't wish on him.

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It's called karmic justice. When he can cheat, he's a genius. When he loses, it's bad luck!

Just when I thought I couldn't hate that narcicisstic criminal's bloated ass any more.

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Gustav, Gannon, Guckert - there's a lot blowing in the GOP.

PEACE

QUESTION?,B>

Does delaying the convention, also delay entry ionto public funding and leave McCain able to spend without limit until official nomination?

Question: Which presidential candidate do the enemies of the U.S. want as President of the U.S?---Greg------http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2734923/

Frankly Greg...why don't YOU tell us? I'd say LBJ or Truman, but since they are dead, Obama.

Guess we'll be seeing more clueless wingers here as the days go on and they get more desperate.

Rove ought to be drawn and quartered, burned at the stake, eaten by maggots and then I'll really go to work on him.

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The only breaks that Rove deserves are the rocks he breaks in prison.

Question: Which presidential candidate do the enemies of the U.S. want as President of the U.S?---Greg------http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2734923/

That's priceless.

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Gustav could well be derived from famous cannon cast by the Kurpp Works for World War One. There were two of them, Big Bertha, named for his wife, and Big Gustav, named after himself, Gustav Krupp.

They were huge cannon, required two railroad cars to transport them, and they could deliver shells to a distance of 50 KM, and crash through several meters of concrete. Both Bertha and Gustav were city killers.

I think Rove was being facetious. Hurricanes have been great for Repugs. Katrina created a tabula rasa for rich white developers in New Orleans, and subsequent storms have been repeatedly used as an excuse to raise gas prices. The GOP loves hurricanes!

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Keep in mind that when you knock Bush and Rove, that they didn't create the neo-Republican party, but they have been instrumental in destroying it.
"Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make lucky."

Unfortunately one of Hercules' tasks was cleaning up the Sisyphean stables. Obama is going to have a similar task.

and in case anyone doesn't know it: the next name on the 2008 hurricane list is 'Ike'. now just think about the irony in that name? Imagine that storm waiting ominously over the horizon, coming towards us, and we won't know where it will strike. It's like Hurricane Ike represents the military industrial complex that would support Prez McCain on his advances toward a new Cold War with Russia and China. but the hitch is we 'thinking' Americans can see the storm coming before it gets here and stay safe by voting for the change of course that a Prez Obama will bring. the irony and symbolism is just too much to ignore. Rove is an a-hole and karma is a bitch, turdblossom.

If they had actually done a good job rebuilding after Katrina they wouldn't have to be having an "Oh sh*t moment right now. They'd be saying "Look what we did to rebuild!" But that would have taken competence, and we can't expect that from the GOP.

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Rove Republicans: A party of whiners.

Who was it that was eating barbecue and raising party money after Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Mississippi South? The FEMA failure was not just one of destroying a critical agency with political hacks, it was much worse, it was a lack of caring on Bush's part. He just didn't believe in its mission.

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God hates Republicans.

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Wasn't there an item a few weeks ago about conservative Christians' praying for Obama's Invesco Field speech to be rained out?

Maybe G*d doesn't love Republicans as much as they think He does, LOL.

the only break Bush, Cheney, Rove et al deserve is a reduced sentence for good behavior. And since they have no concept of good behavior that isn't going to happen either.

Where's Pat Robertson when you need him?

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Yes, of course...it's always about them.

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Yes, of course...it's always about them. New Orleans doesn't even come into the picture for Karl Rove.

After the Dems take over the government, Rove and about 300 other Republicans should be indicted for political malfeasance and treason. That's the break they deserve.

After the Dems take over the government, Rove and about 300 other Republicans should be indicted for political malfeasance and treason. That's the break they deserve.

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