Everything I need to know about Rob McKenna...

...I learned from Darryl...

Karl Rove is in town tonight to raise money for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna.

If you're able, occupy 6th & Bellevue Way, 5:30.

From the Department of Redundancy Department.

Richard Allen Smith at VetVoice...

Karl Rove is Still a Liar

Indeed. Always was. Always will be.

Afghanistan this time, but it's always something.

From the "Speak for yourself" file.

Via Political Wire...

Political adviser Karl Rove and other high-ranking figures in the Bush White House played a greater role than previously understood in the firing of federal prosecutors almost three years ago, according to e-mails obtained by the Washington Post...

Maybe greater than the Washington Post "understood," but I don't think I'm the only one who figured Rove was central to the prosecutor scandal all along. Nice to see the documentation beginning to appear, though.

From the "Me neither" file...

"We're not too worried that Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, and Dick Cheney are battling it out to remain the face of the Republican Party," a Dem strategist emails First Read.

Me neither.

I'm pleased as punch, actually.

Through the looking glass...

Rove: McCain went 'too far' in ads

Curiouser and curiouser.

Good question.

Wally Edge at PolitickerWA…

How many more Republican events for Dino Rossi will put up yellow tape to keep out everybody except for the pre-screened true believers, even in a public park?

Apparently Dino not only decides what's worth talking about, but who's worth talking to. Karl must be proud.

Inch by inch...

...row by row.

Shorter Scott McClellan…

"I lied to you because they lied to me."

Another service of the Committee for Calling Lies Lies.

Heh™.

Pierce on the Preznit…

You would not think you could stuff that much stupid into a single human being, but they managed to do it.

Ain't it the truth. And this, too, is true.

Any piece summoning up Rove's career that doesn't mention that he never drew a public breath without being enormously destructive to everything that matters about this country, and that he should be watering the flowerbeds at Allenwood until halfway through the Chelsea Clinton Administration, is only telling half the story.

More truth? Charles Pierce is an American treasure.

Good advice.

I'm not entirely sure I want her to follow it, but BC has some good advice for Hillary over at AMERICAblog…

Let's face it, saying you're emulating Karl Rove's strategy in the Democratic primary is like saying you're getting parenting tips from Brittney and K-Fed. It's a bad idea, it seems amateurish and off-message. In short, it's something that Rove would never do.

He'd never deploy a campaign manager who admitted it, either.

Let's see.

My man John...

“Goodbye, good riddance.”

Bill's gal Hill?

"She expresses admiration…"

Choose one.

My man John...

…on Rove's resignation.

“Goodbye, good riddance.”

That's it. That's enough.

From the "Don’t let the door hit you…" file.

Karl Rove resigns, effective later this month, having seen the early collapse of his designs for a lasting Republican majority. Hard to tell what it means going forward, but Steve Benen argues persuasively that it will be style, not stategy, that he'll be remembered for.

No, Rove’s legacy has nothing to do with his so-called strategic brilliance. His significance has everything to do with his cutthroat, win-at-all-cost style. Rove believes the political rule that there are no rules. Laws are meant to be broken. Scandals are meant to be covered up. Enemies are meant to be destroyed. The key to electoral success is to tear the country in half and see who comes out with the bigger chunk.

Leaves me wondering - if we do end up with a President Obama, how much credit should we give Rove for lending potency to Barack's 'come let us reason together' message?