Karl "The Conduit" Rove

I can't think of a better nickname for Presidential advisor, Karl Rove (with the possible exception of Bush's sobriquet for him: "turd blossom"), than the one inadvertently given him yesterday in the lede to this story by Ron Hutcheson, Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev of McClatchy Newspapers:

The White House acknowledged on Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit [ohhhh really!] for complaints about federal prosecutors as House investigators declared their intention to question him about any role he may have played in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Rove relayed complaints from Republican officials and others to the Justice Department and the White House counsel's office. She said Rove, the chief White House political operative, specifically recalled passing along complaints about former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias and may have mentioned the grumblings about Iglesias to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Iglesias says he lost his job as the top federal prosecutor in New Mexico after rebuffing Republican pressure to speed his investigation of Democratic officials in the state.

Rove said he did not suggest that any of the U.S. attorneys be forced to resign, Perino said.

This is typical Bush administration abuse, I will go into detail on this in a future blog