From Reuters:
The vote came a day after Bush vowed to oppose any subpoenas. He offered instead to allow aides to answer questions, but only behind closed doors, not under oath and with no transcript taken of their exchanges.
INT. HOUSE - DAY
Karl Rove sits before the House Judiciary Committee.
REP. CONYERS (D., MI): Thank you for coming today, Mr. Rove.
ROVE: Sure thing. Pleasure to be here.
CONYERS: Okay, let’s get started, then… at what point did y—
ROVE: Okay, okay, you got me! I did it! I orchestrated all of it!
ROVE: Yes! I had the attorneys fired for political reasons. They weren’t playing ball, and they had to go.
REP. SMITH (R. TX): Mr. Rove, this is extraordinary. you know you don’t have to -
ROVE: No, I want to come clean. It’s been tormenting me at night. I fired them. In fact, at first I looked into having them killed, but it turned out to be too expensive.
REP. SANCHEZ (D. CA): Okay, let’s step back for a second -
ROVE: Let me finish, please! I had them fired, and then I went back to orchestrating wiretaps, leaking convert identities, and lining my and my friends’ pockets with public money. And then, Robert… I… I fucked your wife.
REP. WEXLER: What!?
ROVE: Yes, yes, I feel terrible about it. It was at the Heritage Foundation’s annual Zydeco Ball. I’m so sorry, but I fucked her. Twice, actually, and the second time I feel worse about because it was backstage, among the accordion cases, doggy sty-
REP. CONYERS: Okay, that’s going to be quite enough of -
ROVE: No! Did you want me to testify or not!? I have to confess. Also, over the past six years I’ve overseen the smuggling of over 300 tons of crack cocaine and heroin into the US in order to enslave the poor and take what’s left of their money. Plus, I saw to it that every 9th shipment was infected with HIV AIDS, so as to cull the herd.
REP. BERMAN (D., CA): Actually, I always kinda suspected that one…
REP. CONYERS: Shut up, Howard! Mr Ro-
ROVE: Let me finish! I need to tell you about one night, one… terrible night. It was last June. I was working on the firings of more federal attorneys. I was at home. I had just ejaculated all over Mrs. Wexler, and I left her there, tied up, while I took a phone call. It was the High Priest, calling from the Bohemian Grove. He told me that he’d arranged the kidnapping of a seven year-old poverty-stricken African American boy who nobody would miss, and was prepared to ritually sacrifice him on my signal, so as to bestow greater glory on the demon-god Asmodai and hasten the End Times. I gave the go-ahead, so that he could read the boy’s entrails and tell me which attorneys had to be fired first. Then, noticing I was late for a meeting for planning those soon-to-be-announced Muslim-American prison camps, I threw on my clothes and headed out the door, ignoring Mrs. Wexler’s entreaties to get her a glass of water, or “do her one more time - the nasty way,” or at least untie her. I took a taxi and slit the driver’s throat as payment, offering greater glory to my demonic overlords, got out and defecated on a sleeping homeless man, shed my human form, and pulled myself up the side of my 50-story lair by my horned and mucousy tentacles, where, on the roof, my robed minions waited with a chalice of a young virgin’s blood on which I could slake my unholy thirsts.
[pause.]
ROVE: I can’t pretend to be proud of it, but that’s what happened.
[pause.]
ROVE: Thank you for giving me this chance to come clean. I’ll never do it again.
[pause.]
[pause.]
REP. CONYERS: We really should’ve subpoenaed you, right?
ROVE: Hee hee, yeah, you really blew that one. Off the record, of course. Okay, toodles, guys!
[Mr. Rove exits. Pause.]
REP. BERMAN: Hey, you think that stuff about that poor little black kid was tru-?
REP. CONYERS: Oh shut up, Howard.





49 comments
Ann
March 21, 2007 at 12:07 pm
1Do you think Mrs. Rove knows about this?
Rebecca
March 21, 2007 at 1:04 pm
2If only it were true. It would explain so much.
Vinnie
March 21, 2007 at 1:46 pm
3Jesus… I t’ought Marco had a devious mind…
Jim (OJNTNJ)
March 21, 2007 at 1:46 pm
4Adam, I thought your schtick was satire, not futurism.
jerry-the-conservatroll
March 21, 2007 at 3:10 pm
5Rove will be punished for revealing our darkest secrets. Wait …. this would count as confirmation from a second source, wouldn’t it.
Aahhhh, nevermind.
You didn’t read anything.
cooper
March 21, 2007 at 3:41 pm
6This is off-target, but I’m dying to know - siobhan, after seeing your singular talents used to produce the now famous Tahoe commercial, I’ve got to ask - Did you do the “Big Sister” ad for Barack? Come on - confess. It was you, wasn’t it?
cooper
March 21, 2007 at 3:46 pm
7REP. BERMAN (D., CA): Actually, I always kinda suspected that one…
Yeah, Howard - me too.
waterfowler
March 21, 2007 at 3:47 pm
8Funny and sick. Fick?
Adam, I hope you don’t have to start over, but that Algore/Chicken Little bit you’ve been working on, it needs one revision. Make AlChickens feet “BIGFEET” like his footprint.
There are none so blind as they who will not see.
If that puke actually believed what he spewed, he’d lead by example and live in a mud hut and quit farting.
Boomer
March 21, 2007 at 4:06 pm
9Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth.
SeattleDan
March 21, 2007 at 4:28 pm
10Now I have to shake the image of the copulating Rove. Thanks a lot!
gillian
March 21, 2007 at 5:12 pm
11No, cooper it wasn’t siobhan. According to tonight’s Countdown, it was Phil de Vellis, who ran the internets for Sherrod Brown’s Senate campaign against Mike DeWine.
cooper
March 21, 2007 at 5:35 pm
12Darn it, gillian. Don’t you just hate it when one of your pals almost becomes famous but then, in the end, doesn’t? Well, siobhan, it could have been you. At least we still have Adam, Mo, & Chris and they may actually become famous any day now.
Harold
March 21, 2007 at 5:38 pm
13So now we know the Bush Administration’s Kryptonite: being placed under oath, and having people write down what you say.
That was Clinton’s mistake, you know.
tim
March 21, 2007 at 5:41 pm
14I think Rove and KSM should have a confess-off. It would go all night.
David
March 21, 2007 at 6:27 pm
15Waterfowler, keep a scrapbook for your grandchildren of your comments regarding Al Gore and global warming. You’ll either be a superhero or a goat to them, depending on whether Al Gore or James Inhofe has it right.
Did anyone else see the convivial elan with which Madame Chairperson Boxer lifted the gavel just a bit and reminded Mister Former Chairperson Inhofe that there’d been an election last November that had consequences, one of which was that he no longer wielded said gavel. I love that lady.
Rove making the beast with two backs really puts the beast in that image.
piglet
March 21, 2007 at 6:39 pm
16Um, should I pay the 200 clams that Oregon Public Broadcasting wants me to “donate” to them for Wait-Wait tickets for the June 28 show in Portland? Adam, will you be on the panel?
siobhan
March 21, 2007 at 7:43 pm
17Adam, I really really really needed a good laugh today. Thanks for your perfect timing.
Piglet, discount that price by the amount you usually donate and it’s probably a deal. I say go for it.
Et al: Tom Tomorrow had a pretty good take on the story, too. (But he didn’t make me laugh the way Adam did.)
SeattleDan
March 21, 2007 at 8:07 pm
18Piglet, yes, do go. We went to the last taping here in Seattle (2001?) and had a blast. We got a Carl Kassel air freshner. Well, a bunch of them, really, cuz we scarfed up a few each time we went to the bathroom. And from the boxes conveniently located at the exits. Just said thank you each time we went past. They make great stocking stuffers at Xmas time!
tess
March 21, 2007 at 8:50 pm
19siobhan,
I’m not sure I laughed so much as cringed at the possibility that IT MIGHT JUST ALL BE TRUE, IF NOT WORSE.
Okay, enough paranoia for one night.
SeattleTammy
March 21, 2007 at 9:13 pm
20So, OT, and to totally alarm all of you, the Border Patrol is moving around here in Washington state and shutting down roads, harassing citizens, everyone, anyone. Welcome to the police state. 100 miles from any border. I’m sorry I don’t have anything witty or cute to say about the link.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003628279_danny21.htm l
Dale
March 21, 2007 at 10:04 pm
21Has anyone heard from Katie?
siobhan
March 22, 2007 at 4:22 am
22Actually, SeaTammy, not so off-topic. Remember that one of the complaints about Carol Lam was that she wasn’t strong enough on immigration enforcement. (Nothing to do with the Duke Cunningham case, of course, or the followup cases she was working on.) They said that she only concentrated on larger human smuggling rings instead of pursuing individual violators. Clearly someone in Washington state understands the priorities and their relationship to job security.
Maximum Bob
March 22, 2007 at 8:06 am
23“…the Heritage Foundation’s annual Zydeco Ball…”
Y’know, the whole thing was funny, but somehow this had me rolling on the floor.
On the subject of global climate change: if we’re going to talk about it, we could do without the ad hominem attacks on Al Gore. Let’s leave that to Rush, OK?
David
March 22, 2007 at 9:10 am
24“So it didn’t go over so well when the feds showed up last week and, in the name of fighting terrorism, made locals vouch for their citizenship.” This is the good news. Let ‘em keep pissing off independent-minded locals in clearly useless activities regarding terrorism, while hindering small ag businesses by arresting illegal aliens (aren’t we all ultimately the descendants of someone who came here without permission from some resident authority?)
Re: Al Gore. One-hundred percent of the energy to power his manse comes from renewable sources, contributing zilch to global warming.
Stephen
March 22, 2007 at 12:21 pm
25OK, way off topic but did any one see the Daily Show interview with John Bolton? WOW, why can’t the “real” news handle an interview this well? Never backed down but stayed respectful the whole time. Scroll down to the bottom of the videos to see it. It was excellent.
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml
Hot Tub Tommy
March 22, 2007 at 3:19 pm
26I just lost my place in the book. That’s all.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/22/what-is-tom-delay-smoking/
Lemuel
March 22, 2007 at 3:52 pm
27I’ll bet he’s smoking some of that Sugar Land Surprise I grew down by the arroyo. He gets into it sometimes and he makes a complete ass of himself.
David
March 22, 2007 at 5:08 pm
28Amen, Stephen. I thought the same thing as I was watching it. And did you see last night when Stewart used a previous interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin, plus the good lady live on the phone, to counter some of Bolton’s utterly fact-devoid comments? Stewart is hard-nosed when it comes to reality, but genuinely honorable in what he does.
Chlordane Charlie
March 22, 2007 at 5:14 pm
29Hey, Lemuel, don’t forget all the great pesticides from the good old days that St. Thomas of Delay bathed himself in.
K. Trout
March 22, 2007 at 5:46 pm
30I once wrote a story titled “The Dancing Fool” in which a flying saucer creature named Zog arrived on Earth to explain how wars could be prevented and how cancer could be cured. He brought the information from Margo, a planet where the natives conversed by means of farts and tap dancing.
Zog landed at night in Connecticut. He had no sooner touched down than he saw a house on fire. He rushed into the house, farting and tap dancing, warning the people about the terrible danger they were in. The head of the house brained Zog with a golf club. It was a short story.
siobhan
March 22, 2007 at 6:56 pm
31OT: Wow - the Seattles are having Sherman Alexie (!) for a book-signing. That’s awesome - send a hello from down south…
cooper
March 22, 2007 at 7:13 pm
32“The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” is one of my favorites. Adam Felber, Sherman Alexie and David Ossman in less than a year - Dan/Tammy, you guys know some seriously heavy hitters. So, are you going to have Richard Ford and Margaret Atwood next?
waterfowler
March 22, 2007 at 8:17 pm
33David, Ags are out. Go Gators.
Also, that “Re: Algore…” You lost me on that, man. You can’t possibly believe that. Renewable doesn’t always mean clean or green. You really need to expand your information sources. 100%?!? It’s not possible. DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO… You may now return to your zombie-like trance.
SeattleDan
March 22, 2007 at 9:06 pm
34Hey, guys, Thanks! coop, I sure wish we could get Richard Ford and/or Margaret Atwood, but they tend to get slotted at the bigger stores in town. I’m going to put in a dibs for the paperback release for Ford’s “Lay of the Land” later this year, but wont be holding my breath.
We’ve known Sherman for some time, and next to Adam, he is one of the nicest guys in the biz, who isn’t afraid he’ll lose cred if he signs with the indie stores. If any of you get a chance to see him perform, go. He’s a great guy and very funny. (Maybe not quite as funny as Adam, but close).
cooper
March 23, 2007 at 2:56 am
35Edith Layton, maybe?
Stephen
March 23, 2007 at 6:22 am
36David,
Yeah, I did see it. I thought he handled it really well. I wish the MSM would take a couple leafs out of his book.
Sharon
March 23, 2007 at 11:34 am
37I just saw the announcement for Sherman Alexie. Nice going, S.Dan & S.Tammy! Wish I could be there.
Sharon
March 23, 2007 at 11:43 am
38Carol Lam was also supposedly fired for being lax on gun control:
No word on whether the USA who ranked 93rd was also fired. Coming from an administration that hasn’t exactly been eager to piss off the NRA, this reason is most implausible.
Sharon
March 23, 2007 at 11:49 am
39From Talking Points Memo, I assume this refers to the missing 18 days of emails:
“Following the US Attorney Purge story. Here’s more clear evidence that Kyle Sampson, former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, knowingly lied to congressional staff and that the DOJ document dump did not include key emails directly relevant to the investigation.”
“Kyle Sampson”? Does that not sound like yet another gay male escort scandal waiting to be revealed?
Jim (OJNTNJ)
March 23, 2007 at 12:06 pm
40Sharon, If that’s the case, these folks have an “interesting” standards of attraction. But then again, he does bear a certain resemblence to Rove:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660205646,00.html
Sharon
March 23, 2007 at 1:04 pm
41Filed under “You just can’t make this stuff up.”
From Tony Snow’s interview yesterday morning with Diane Sawyer:
Ann
March 23, 2007 at 1:36 pm
42Wow. Whadya suppose Satan gave Snow for his soul?
Sharon
March 23, 2007 at 2:13 pm
43I guess the WH didn’t rehearse him enough.
hedera
March 23, 2007 at 5:40 pm
44God, Sampson DOES look like Rove. Scary. And while “Kyle Sampson” is indeed a great and suggestive name, they will never, ever, beat “Dusty Foggo” for a name that just sounds like it belongs to a creep.
What makes you think Tony Snow has a soul?
Harold
March 23, 2007 at 5:45 pm
45Holy crap! So Diane Sawyer isn’t just a sub-geriatric bimbo?
(Did you see her reports from North Korea? She met a boy wearing a Nike cap, and asked him if he knew where Nike was from, implying that he was unwittingly declaring his love for an American company. I was hoping he would reply “Yes, it is from the labor camp on the other side of the village, where my sister had her hands cut off for sewing on swooshes crooked.”)
Or was that just a lucky shot?
David
March 23, 2007 at 6:24 pm
46waterfowler, I’ll get back to the Gore commentary later. Right now, I’m defibrillating from the Butler game. Sorry A&M didn’t win that headknocker.
mota
March 26, 2007 at 8:05 am
47awesome read but I’m pretty sure Rove doesn’t do women.
Murray
March 26, 2007 at 9:30 am
48Kyle Sampson, I think the adminsitration LOOKS for men who sound like a gay porn star.
Prehaps something to feed to Rove.
Deeper Throat
March 27, 2007 at 3:22 am
49If you only knew, Murray. This is the new, improved Oral Office. No Monicas here, but Smokin’ Rods, that’s a different story. But Rove, no. He can’t put his cell phone down long enough to be interested in anything else but photo ops and power lunches.