Karl Rove: Unelected Co-President.

I just saw Bush's Brain, a movie based on the book about Karl Rove's role in George W. Bush's life and presidency.... Towards the end, it's mentioned how some politicians wish there was a confirmation hearing for Rove as no one un elected person should have the power he does.

Now, I'd like to say I found this funny considering all the Republican crap we Dems were given about how much power Hillary had.

However, I'm really left with the same bad ashy taste I've had for the past 4 years or so. Two of the people who appeared on tape were Max Cleland and Joseph Wilson, and they talked about how W. and Rove done them wrong.

For Cleland- He did his job and did a good job. He lost 3 limbs in 'Nam and then wanted to serve his country some more in the Senate. His reward was to be compared to Bin Laden and Saddam in an attack ad. The Republicans weren't attacking him because he was drinking blood or rodgering little boys BUT because he refused to vote for the REPUBLICAN Homeland Security Bill. Basically both parties created a Homeland Security Bill and rather then reach a compromise the Republicans destroyed Cleland.

Joseph Wilson's wife was put in clear and present danger by Robert Novack( and Rove). Wilson felt after W.'s State of the Union where W. mentioned Iraq was trying to buy nuclear material from Africa, to set the record straight. Wilson wrote an op ed piece and said he had been 'asked' the previous year to check into these rumors, and had found them to be false. Novack was then leaked and published the fact that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.
This destroyed Plame's life. I mean it's hard to be a secret agent if everyone KNOWS you're a secret agent. Worse, it also endangers the life of OTHER secret agents as after seeing her picture and under it "CIA agent" you're thinking- did I see her with Bob from accounting... Yeah... doesn't that mean Bob could be CIA?
They destroyed her life to give her husband the finger. It's a CRIME to revel the identity of a secret agent ( and made a crime by Bush Sr. and Reagan in 1982)... because of what was said above it puts the lives of people SERVING our country in jeopardy.

I just thought Bush's Brain was interesting because it showed the lives destroyed by Bushco. on a personal level, people who were just trying to do right by their country.