UnRoved

So Karl Rove set about (and was hired) to create a Bush legacy and a permanent Republican majority, failed at both to catastrophic effect--both for this country and others--and, so, has lost his job. Perplexed? Neither am I.

One of the central mysteries of this administration, though, is the bounds of Bush's loyalty. Bush is famous for not knowing when to cut ties with the cronies who've helped him put his administration in the toilet. What makes almost no sense to me, though, is the logic behind it. Why Rove, but not Gonzales? Why Rumsfeld after 2006, but not Rove? And on and on. I think one plausible answer is that until recently Bush wasn't making those decisions himself, but was instead taking advice from... the now deposed Karl Rove.