White House: Bush Agenda Survives Rove

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"A day after Karl Rove officially announced his departure on August 31, the White House argued that even without his top aide, President Bush expects to pursue a robust agenda for the remainder of his term. With much of Tuesday's press commentary concluding that Rove's resignation signaled the effective end of the Bush presidency, the White House appeared to be trying to debunk what's fast becoming the media consensus. Last night and this morning, there appeared to few media takers for that line. Fox News' Special Report ran an extensive report on the White House preparing "without Rove to do battle with the Democratic led Congress," and showed White House spokesperson Dana Perino saying, "We are going to have some fights on our hand." But later on the broadcast, during a roundtable discussion, columnist Charles Krauthammer said, "It's over." Talk of "an ambitious agenda...is absurd, there is no agenda.""

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