Tribpedia: Karl Rove

Tribpedia

Karl Rove is a former political consultant whose career culminated with the election and reelection, in 2000 and 2004, of President George W. Bush. Rove followed Bush to Washington, D.C., and served in the White House as the president's top political advisor — his actual titles were deputy chief of staff and senior advisor — from 2001 to 2007.

He ...

Read More...

For Perry, Quitting is Not an Option

Gov. Rick Perry at a rally on the morning of the Jan. 3, 2012, Iowa caucuses.
Enlarge photo by: Bob Daemmrich
Gov. Rick Perry at a rally on the morning of the Jan. 3, 2012, Iowa caucuses.

After an awful fifth-place showing in Iowa and top aides telling him he should consider pulling out of the presidential race, the specter of a first defeat has come into focus for Gov. Rick Perry. Here's the problem: He does not really know how to lose.

Gov. Rick Perry stops for an impromptu press conference in the hallway behind the Senate chamber on July 19, 2011.
Enlarge photo by: Bob Daemmrich
Gov. Rick Perry stops for an impromptu press conference in the hallway behind the Senate chamber on July 19, 2011.

Video: Sunday Pundits Mention Rick Perry... Barely

The Sunday shows focused this week on the last-minute politics surrounding the effort to raise the federal debt ceiling. However, a few pundits managed to fit potential presidential nominee Gov. Rick Perry into the discussion. Just barely.

Enlarge photo by: Bob Daemmerich

Bush, Perry Tension Renewed as Governor's Star Rises

To the list of things that Rick Perry shows contempt for — Barack Obama’s leadership abilities, excessive federal regulation, coyotes that interrupt his morning jog — add this surprising one: George W. Bush’s ideological disposition. The governor seems to go out of his way to criticize his predecessor as insufficiently conservative. Bush, for his part, makes no mention of Perry in his memoir. "There's certainly no love lost between these two men," says UT presidential scholar Bruce Buchanan.

Enlarge

Bamboozled by the Establishment

  • by Tom Pauken

The big-government crowd in Washington and elsewhere are bankrupting our country. And Republicans are just as culpable as Democrats in treating our taxpayer dollars as “other people’s money” to be spent as they and the special interests decide.

Enlarge

"Big Government Conservatism"

Sound economic policy was sacrificed on the altar of short-term political gain in the George W. Bush administration. This buying of political support with taxpayers’ money brings to mind the words of Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

Enlarge credit: Todd Wiseman illustration

Explaining the Rick Perry-Bush Clan Divide

When George H.W. Bush becomes the latest denizen of Bushworld to endorse Kay Bailey Hutchison at an event at his West Houston home this morning — following on the heels of KBH supporters James Baker, Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, and Margaret Spellings — it will be impossible to pretend any longer that there isn't a Bush-versus-Perry narrative at play in the 2010 governor's race. But what's really going on here?