"Row, Row" Rove Yourself Out to Sea. Stop the bombs in Vieques, but now ye can tell the Navy to drop the bombs on all Republicans in South Texas. Hooray! So, Row, Rove, Row." Mephisto
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"A frequent complaint among Republicans is that Mr. Rove has overextended himself, and insufficiently concealed his tracks, so that many decisions coming from the White House have an overly political taint.
That taint is especially problematic because of the way Mr. Bush campaigned, with a constant mantra that his White House would be governed by principles in a way that President Bill Clinton's, in his view, was not.
Although some senior administration officials deny it, Mr. Rove appears to be front and center in the process by which the White House will decide whether to allow federal financing of research on stem cells from human embryos. A decision to permit the research would outrage many Catholics and religious conservatives, constituencies on which Mr. Rove keeps a watchful eye.
Mr. Rove was also a player at recent meetings about the future of Navy bombing tests in Vieques, and Senator James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, accused him of single-handedly making the decision to halt the bombing by 2003 in order to win the favor of Hispanic voters."
The above excerpt is from an article entitled:
" Crew of Listing Bush Ship Draws Republican Scowls"
By RICHARD L. BERKE and FRANK BRUNI
From The New York Times
July 2, 2001
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