Card: Rove's Claim That Congress Pushed Bush To War Is Wrong

Karl Rove told Charlie Rose during a recent interview that Congress had pushed President Bush to go into Iraq prematurely. According to Rove, the White House had been opposed to holding the war vote close to the 2002 elections because "we thought it made it too political."

This morning, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card went on MSNBC's Morning Joe and laughed off Rove's claims. Read part of the transcript from Think Progress:

SCARBOROUGH: We have to start with something that we all are talking about a couple of days ago where Karl Rove went on Charlie Rose and he blamed the Democrats for pushing him and the president into war. Is that how it worked?

CARD: No, that's not the way it worked.

Card went on to explain that sometimes Rove's "mouth gets ahead of his brain":

SCARBOROUGH: Is that just Karl spinning beyond the White House? ...

CARD: Well, Karl is very smart. He's -- sometimes his brain gets ahead of his mouth. And sometimes his mouth gets ahead of his brain.

Watch the video from MSNBC here:

Go to HuffPost's Rove Watch to read more.

Comments

[m4rk]

07:26 PM on 12/02/2007

Is there any possible way we can get these horrible people in a jail cell?

[Not Blind]

06:55 PM on 12/01/2007

That Andy Card, another neocon, fascist, Chicken-Hawk, PNAC-AIPAC thug would criticize Rove is astounding! This proves further what a voracious, unrepentent liar Rove is. That the Congress (during 2002-2003) was controlled by Republicans makes further his statements audacious fabrications.
Rather than buying his book, we should send money to MoveOn.org or other political action groups to denounce both Rove and his attempt to profit from his revisionist history. A class-action suit may be in order. (It stopped O.J. Simpson's attempt to publish and profit from his tell-all book). Boycott any stores that sell Rove's books and tell them why. The less credence and attention we give this lunatic, the better. He's not worth our time to blog.

[Checquoline]

06:08 PM on 12/01/2007

Even though this has nothing to do with this story, I would like everyone who reads this to know that Andy Card was a lobbiest for the auto idustry working to prevent stiffer emissions controls on new automobiles. Then Bush picked him for his chief of staff.

[fourex]

05:51 PM on 12/01/2007

It's called lying, Andy.

[ROBOT8]

12:09 PM on 12/01/2007

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, THE TRUTH IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE STATE." -- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
ten steps that "fascist, totalitarian, and other repressive leaders [employ to] seize and maintain power, especially in what were once democracies.” The ten steps are:
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law
naomi wolfe

[levibatgirl]

05:13 AM on 12/01/2007

Miss piggy has a criminal mind.

[DMcD]

01:57 AM on 12/01/2007

Lets see now.

His mouth gets ahead of his brain -- all that while having his head up his ass -- man , this guy would be the best at 'Twister'..

[darker]

01:48 AM on 12/01/2007

Rove is Bush's Brain?
Bush has no brain, so that doesn't say much about Rove does it. BRAINLESS.
And brainless is--as brainless does.

[splashy]

01:20 AM on 12/01/2007

ANYTHING Rove says is BS. I can't believe he is still walking around free.

[doinaheckofajob]

01:00 AM on 12/01/2007

Evn Faux Nose surveys say Bush sucks and that flying pig boy Rove is saying that it was the bad old Congress thatdid it. Rove is a lunatic andmot of the republicons are deranged for for believing his Bushit.

[watchingthings]

12:15 AM on 12/01/2007

I doubt that there's anyone out there that deserves to be in Prison more then Rove does.

[doinaheckofajob]

09:43 PM on 11/30/2007

Rove is a human Ebola vrus, spewing blood,vomit and diarrhea all over himeself and everyone in sight. Turdblossm is the right name alright. And this was Bush's brain? OMFG, what a pack of losers.

[TLV]

08:46 PM on 11/30/2007

Karl Rove = useless husk

[squeakyf]

08:43 PM on 11/30/2007

What makes me sick is the fact that everyone seems to think that "Bush's Brain" or "Turdblossom" is making a big joke. He went "into retirement" for a reason and that reason is he's the smartest dumbass there. What has the public news become other that one ass asking another ass a question??? Our Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they knew what this country has come to. It is a sad day in America when we gave Rove the ability to broadcast his filth!

[DRaymond]

07:05 PM on 11/30/2007

The problem is that Card's explaination doesn't work either.

Rove said that the statement about Congress was a revelation that was going to be in his book. In other words it wasn't something that his mouth got ahead of his brain. It was something that he had planned on writing long ahead of time.

One thing is clear, when Rove's book comes out responsible booksellers will put it on the fantasy shelf.