The Donna Brazile - Karl Rove Connection

BY ROSEMARY REGELLO

It's not every activist politico who gets to write a post in the Washington Times that begins like this: "As I sat by my window and staring out at the wonderful Washington, D.C., landscape, my office announced a phone call from Air Force One."







Evidently, Donna Brazile was reminding all the little people on Capitol Hill that she had friends in high places. In summer of 2007, Bush senior advisor Karl Rove wasn't answering any subpoenas from Congress, but he didn't mind talking to Brazile. From his perch at 20,000 feet, he informed her that this was probably a good time for him to get out of Dodge.







“Mr. Rove's resignation is not a retirement,” Brazile reassured readers of the right of center newspaper. “It's just another opportunity for him to create that lasting Republican majority he envisioned years ago and to spend his waking days doing what he so enjoys — beating Democrats in the alleys and gutters. Just ask Sen. Hillary Clinton, Mr. Rove's target when he called in to speak to Rush Limbaugh. He couldn't help it. Mr. Rove just had to take one last shot before riding out of town. More to come, Team Clinton.”







Brazile's breezy account confirms what many have long since suspected. Rove’s claim to be sitting out the 2008 race is hogwash. The mastermind of today's unraveling U.S. constitution in no position to kick back, down gin fizzes and watch the country collapse under an Administration he put in office twice. The list of crimes that Bush's top henchman could potentially be charged with - everything from fraud to war crimes - should be enough to keep him and his fellow Sopranos in hair trigger mode until at least the next president gets sworn in. The notion that he'd leave the choice of that individual in less capable dirty hands than his own requires more than the willing suspension of disbelief. It requires medication.







That's why this Rove-Brazile tryst merits further exploration. The Democratic Party official first hooked up with the point man of the Bush Administration in 2002.



"Mr. Rove proved you can win elections with rumors, fear, division and manipulation." Brazile wrote back in 2007.

It’s ironic when you think about it. The DNC’s Voting Rights Institute was created to stop exclusionary practices and increase participation at the polling booth. Now its chairwoman is presiding over one of the most hostile and fraudulent campaigns since those newspaper delivery trucks ran over the boy scouts in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.





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Where Does Obama's Money Really Come From?

Posted on Newsweek blog by Bonnie Erbe

consider whence much of Obama's money comes. While donations to his campaign are not accepted from lobbyists per se, they are proffered by corporate executives. These same executives face a mountain of federal issues on which they will most surely need Obama's help, should he win the White House in November. So what's the difference?

To wit. Bloomberg reported that donors to Obama's joint fundraising committee included Jay Grinney, president and chief executive officer of Birmingham, Ala.-based HealthSouth Corp., who gave $10,000, and Donald Thompson, U.S. chief of Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's Corp., who gave $28,500, the maximum.

As I've noted before, Sen. Obama's fourth-largest corporate donor is Exelon, the nation's largest provider of nuclear power.
Did he take donations straight from the pockets of the company's lobbyists? No. But did he accept largesse in the amount of more than a quarter million dollars from Exelon's CEO and top executives? Yes. In the process, he watered down to oblivion an antinuclear amendment he had sponsored, originally to force nuclear power producers to report even the most negligible of radioactive leaks. He then went on to tell mesmerized campaign audiences he had "passed" his antinuclear bill, which never passed the U.S. Senate.

I have done a search on the Federal Election Commission website for donations to Obama's campaign. Page after page was listed a name but no other information listed.

Where indeed has BO's money been coming from? Do those people really exist? When I have made donations online, I have always had to give my address and occupation, credit require an address be given to avoid fraud. Just something to think about.

Obama Sells Out And BB King Says

I'm just surprised anyone fell for his "we are change" campaign in the first place. All you had to do was look at his voting record in support for troops in Iraq, not being able to commit to a time to pull out of Iraq, and him voting yes for the patriot act.