E Pluribus Unum

by Mark Adams

CNN.com - White House spokesman resigning
Rove to lose policy portfolio

There's good and bad in this.  It's fantastic that Karl Rove will no longer be in charge of White House Domestic Policy -- a role for which he was so utterly exposed as completely inept since his rousing defeat on Social Security privatization and management of the Katrina disaster.  The bad news of course is that he will be more free to do what he does best, electing corrupt ideologues to perpetuate the Republican Majority.

That's the change we won't see so much.  Changing the public face of the White House with Scott-Bot McManiquin leaving will be more apparent, and if the rumors of Tony Snow taking the job are true, I expect to be physically ill three to five times a week watching that piece of work lie to the press corp.

But Rove? That's the real story:

Also, a senior administration official revealed another move in the ongoing shakeup of Bush's staff, saying that longtime confidant and adviser Karl Rove is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections.

Suddenly the Democrats are put on notice that it won't be a cake-walk this fall.

Cross Posted at Dispassionate Liberalism.