The New Republic

Karl Rove today again signals that the Republican line is going to be that President Obama has adopted the Republican Party's economic agenda: [F]ailure would imperil $400 billion in tax cuts that would be a more effective economic boost than Mr. Obama's justifiably ridiculed stimulus. READ MORE >>

I understand why liberals are so angry about the tax deal, despite the fact that President Obama won far more economic stimulus than he gave away in upper-class tax cuts. It's the culmination of a huge blown political opportunity. But the conservative glee is, on the other side, bizarre. The Republican spin is that Obama has given up on his economic strategy and embraced the Republican approach. READ MORE >>

[Guest post by Isaac Chotiner] A few years ago I engaged in a friendly debate with Ross Douthat about the number of books that President Bush had read in 2006. According to Karl Rove, the former president had read 94 books (some of the 94 were big history books). I found this claim dubious, but Ross thought it was believeable. Now, to Sarah Palin. At the end of his big piece on the onetime Alaska governor, Robert Draper writes: READ MORE >>

-- John Judis offers four myths about the Tea Party. -- Karl Rove questions Sarah Palin's suitability for the presidency. -- Reuters's Ellen Wulfhorst profiles Republicans who are voting for Democrats because of the Tea Party. READ MORE >>

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Karl Rove is practicing the technique of repeating a lie until people stop questioning it. But here he is again explaining away his description of the Tea Party as unsophisticated: “I was thinking of the word ‘sophisticated’ in the way that I think of a lot of members of the media — pretentiously wise,” Rove told POLITICO READ MORE >>

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Karl Rove equates Birtherism with... people who thought the 2000 election recount was handled unfairly: SPIEGEL: It is, however, difficult to understand the smear campaigns against Obama, claiming that he falsified his birth certificate and is not the legitimate president. READ MORE >>

I wrote early in 2009 about Karl Rove's habit of projecting the worst qualities of himself and the administration he worked for onto its successor. Raw Story has another example. READ MORE >>

I've written before about Karl Rove's hilarious tendency to project his own flaws onto others, a tendency that has pushed far beyond mere hypocrisy and well into pathology. READ MORE >>

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