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“The rumors that chief White House political architect Karl Rove will leave sometime next year are being bolstered with new insider reports that his partisan style is a hurdle to President Bushs new push for bipartisanship,” reports Think Progress.
An advisor “said that Rove is aware of the situation and that a departure might come in ‘weeks, not months.’”
A new Pew Research Center poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Rudy Giuliani (R) ahead in their parties respective races for the 2008 presidential nomination. Clinton leads the Democrats with 39%, followed by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) with 23% and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and Al Gore (D) with 10% each.
“House Republicans overwhelmingly elected” Reps. John A. Boehner (R-OH) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) “yesterday to lead their minority team, opting for experience over ideology as the GOP adjusts to a challenging new world on the outskirts of congressional power,” reports the Washington Post.
“The turmoil in newly elected Rep. Shelley Sekula-Gibbs’ office deepened with the Houston Republican demanding a congressional investigation of aides who quit in a mass walkout earlier this week,” the Houston Chronicle reports.
“Sekula-Gibbs said the staffers, holdovers from her predecessor Tom DeLay, deleted records from the office’s computers Monday, the day before seven of them resigned in apparent protest of their treatment.”
Hartford Courant columnist Kevin Rennie notes Connecticut’s disgraced former governor has been keeping busy.
US Tobacco had a national meeting in Florida last weekend. The speaker: felonious former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland.