Coming across this piece of information was a pleasant surprise. Below is a PowerPoint presentation given to GOP staffers by Karl Rove. One of these yahoos "misplaced" it on a DC street and was discovered by- you guessed it- a Democratic Congressional staffer and viola! Enjoy...

Bush's 2002 Mid-term Election Plan

Joe Conason, the NY Observer, by way of BartCop.com, comments:

[Trying to portray Mr. Bush as a serious scholar is about as believable as earlier efforts to paint him as a selfless statesman who heeds no polls, adheres always to principle, and indulges in nothing so base and "Clintonian" as political calculation. Citizens who wish to preserve such illusions should avoid reading the PowerPoint presentation by White House chief political adviser Karl Rove about Republican electoral strategies and prospects.

That computer disc, reportedly left on a public street by an intern, fell into the hands of a Democratic Congressional staffer, who handed it over in turn to Roll Call, the Capitol Hill weekly. Used by Mr. Rove and his associates to lecture Republican activists visiting the White House, the slides on that disc reveal an unusually cynical approach to public policy, even for a President. (Anyone eager to be disillusioned, or just amused, may view the entire presentation at www.politicspa.com.)

Consider slide 21, which summarizes the White House plans for various constituencies that Mr. Rove hopes to draw into the Bush camp over the next two years. It says that they intend to "maintain" support from "Coal & Steel," "Farmers" and "Ranchers." Then skip ahead to slides 24 through 26, which show the states most narrowly won or lost by Mr. Bush in 2000, including West Virginia (coal), Missouri (farmers), Iowa (farmers), Pennsylvania (steel), Ohio (coal and steel), Wisconsin (farmers) and so on.

What Mr. Rove omitted from his show-and-tell, of course, were the little actions the President took to help himself in these states of "special concern," as they’re called in PowerPoint prose...

...As soon as the disc leaked out, the White House announced that its contents didn’t accurately reflect Mr. Rove’s opinions. None of the Republicans is really in trouble, they insisted. A senior official also told the Associated Press that recent policy reversals by the President have "no connection to political gain" for him and his party.]

Of course it has no connection!?! :)

Here we go again folks. Bush 2 picks up from where daddy left off. Now the the buzz word is "pre-emptive stike." It is like saying that one is guilty until proven innocent. Seems to be the prevailing philosophy for the pResidential squatters. Just when the heat turns up under the administration again, deflection begins. By the time we find the truth, the damage is done. All we need is 250000 troops with a reason to kill every Iraqi in site! Yes, Hussein, must be removed, but for his genocidal tendencies and as a downright lousy leader. So, shouldn't we tread lightly, especially Arab county?

William A. Galston, from The Washington Post, explains...
Why a First Strike Will Surely Backfire