Karl Rove Still a No-Show. . .Except on TV

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Five days ago, Congress gave Karl Rove five more days to appear before them, as ordered by Congressional subpoena. Nobody expected him to do it, of course, because Bush Administration officials are apparently immune from the rule of law. Unless Congress gave him five business days, though, his five days are up. And so far--though I may have missed it--I haven't seen much about it.

If Karl Rove (and Josh Bolten and Harriet Miers) are let off the hook for this, it seems to me that this is the straw that breaks the camel's back as it applies to Congressional power. They'll have shown that they have none. Do you suppose that they're just hoping for a Democratic administration, and that they won't need the power? I can't quite figure it out. But I really wish hour Congress would just collectively grow a set. Yes, Nancy Pelosi too.

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Karl Rove snubs Congress but gabs with TV critics

He may be snubbing Congress, dismissing a congressional subpoena as just another scrap of paper caught in the war between the White House and a House committee over executive privilege.

But former White House aide Karl Rove, now a Fox News analyst, wasn't too proud to be a prop for Fox News in a Q-and-A session the network laid on Monday at the Television Critics Assn.'s summer press tour in Beverly Hills. On a panel that also included Fox analyst Howard Wolfson, a former acolyte of Hillary Clinton, Rove opined aplenty. . .

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