Drudge had a link to some supposedly no-spin-no-agenda (who links to Wonkette?  Yeah, right.  Pull the other one.) blogger type named “Fauntroy” who reported that See-BS’ Wilhemina Plante was overheard
bellow[ing] to Bush: “If he’s so smart, how come you lost Congress?”
To which I think my  rejoinder would have been, “Plante, you fuckhead, if you’re such a hot-shit reporter and your news division is all that and a bag o’ chips…how come you’re losing ratings???”
Just sayin’.
Hmmm.  Based on this analysis, Rove’s departure is a Good Thing™.  Couldn’t’ve been better timed, in fact.
At Gillespie’s urging, Bush has responded more aggressively to attacks by the Democrats on his war policies and has taken them on over excessive spending. Pushed by Gillespie, Bush has made more public appearances. The fact that Bush flew to the site of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis shows he has learned since Hurricane Katrina that for political reasons, a president must make such appearances.
Why it took Katrina for Bush to figure that out is a curiosity.  But at least he took the hint.
But Rove being “the greatest political tactician in American history”?  Might wanna check with this guy named Atwater on that one.
Just sayin’.