{"id":6614,"date":"2014-09-28T00:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6614"},"modified":"2014-09-28T00:31:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:31:22","slug":"rove-calls-holder-a-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6614","title":{"rendered":"Rove calls Holder a 'hack'"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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That’s the spirit, Karl Rove.<\/p>\n

When Eric Holder, the attorney general of the United States steps down after nearly six years of service to the country, “Bush’s Brain” Rove calls him a “partisan hack.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/eric-holder-resign-karl-rove-react-111345.html?hp=l11<\/p>\n

Therein lies a big part of the problem with today’s political debate. You have differences with an administration and then as the nation’s top lawyer steps down you inflame those differences with a statement that is stunning in its lack of self-awareness.<\/p>\n

It’s been part and parcel of the right’s reaction to Holder’s impending departure. An editorial in my local newspaper, the Amarillo Globe-News, spent a good deal of space condemning him for various perceived and alleged errors while on the job. It made no mention of his sincere commitment to voting rights for all Americans.<\/p>\n

As for Rove, the godfather of partisan hacks everywhere, it galls me to no end that he would hang that label on someone else.<\/p>\n

The big picture at times is just too complete and puts too much context on someone’s public service to suit some of us.<\/p>\n\n

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That’s the spirit, Karl Rove. When Eric Holder, the attorney general of the United States steps down after nearly six years of service to the country, “Bush’s Brain” Rove calls him a “partisan hack.” http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/eric-holder-resign-karl-rove-react-111345.html?hp=l11 Therein lies a big part of the problem with today’s political debate. You have differences with an administration and then … Continue reading Rove calls Holder a 'hack'<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,1008,1617,2632,5140],"class_list":["post-6614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agn-media","tag-civil-rights","tag-eric-holder","tag-karl-rove","tag-voting-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}