The Fall of Karl Rove

O, Christmas for which I yearn. It is to be expected that there is a certain amount of chicanery involved in any game as competitive as politics. In fact, no one anywhere in any game is likely to be as pure as the driven snow. (But what do I know about driven snow? I live in Central Texas). But a guy like Karl Rove is on a plane with some of the true villains of history--Martin Borman & Herman Goering springs to mind. The Bush Administration has been thwarted in the exercise of its basic impulses because the country retains enough of its democratic culture that allows incipient fascism only to come out as sort of Fascist Lite, or soft fascism.

The comparisons with the Nazis are old hat, virtually cliches. When people make those comparisons, they are condemned as shrill. However, as another cliche has it, "If the shoe fits..."