God bless you, Karl. I can't wait to see the next election results in 2008 when we win back the presidency too because Karl tells Bush that keeping troops in Iraq is going to lead to great things.
More from Mike Allen at TIME:
Rove took comfort in results of the Connecticut Senate race between the anti-war Democratic nominee, Ned Lamont, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who ran as an independent after losing the Democratic primary over his support for the war. "Iraq mattered," Rove says. "But it was more frustration than it was an explicit call for withdrawal. If this was a get-out-now call for withdrawal, then Lamont would not have been beaten by Lieberman. Iraq does play a role, but not the critical, central role."Yeah, Karl Rove takes comfort in the fact that a Democratic Senator won back his seat and is now helping the Dems keep the majority in the Senate. If that's Karl's definition of comfort, then I'd like to make him as comfortable as possible.
As for Iraq, as noted above, keep the troops there for another two years and, come next election, Rove and Bush are gonna be looking back on the Katrina fiasco as the good old days. And finally, there's this:
At the White House senior staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Chief of Staff Josh Bolten thanked Karl Rove for his hard work in the elections, and the group around the big table burst into spontaneous applause.Oh, trust me - we were giving Karl the same applause. We couldn't have done it without him.
