Rove says Obama economic team 'reassuring'
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(CNN) - President-elect Barack Obama is drawing early praise from former top Bush-aide Karl Rove.
Rove, widely credited with orchestrating President Bush's two successful presidential campaigns, writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Obama has assembled a "first rate" economic team that has "provided surprisingly positive clarity."
Specifically, Rove praises Obama's choice of New York Fed Chairman Timothy Geithner for Treasury Secretary and Obama's pick of Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard University, as chief of the National Economic Council.
"Monday's announcement of Mr. Obama's economic team was reassuring," Rove writes. "He's generally surrounded himself with intelligent, mainstream advisers. Investors, workers and business owners can only hope that, over time, this new administration's economic policies bear more of their market-oriented imprint."
Rove also offers praise of Berkley Economics Professor Christina Romer as Obama's choice to head up his team of economics advisers. But Rove criticizes the choice of Melody Barnes, a former aide to Sen. Ted Kennedy, as Domestic Policy Council Director.
"Putting a former aide to Ted Kennedy in charge of health policy after tapping universal health-care advocate Tom Daschle to be Health and Human Services secretary sends a clear signal that Mr. Obama didn't mean it when his campaign ads said he wouldn't run to the "extremes" with government-run health care," Rove writes.
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Is it possisble that Rove is thinking of becoming a DEMOCRAT?
Karl Rove has been sooo wrong sooo much of the time, do we really care what he thinks. He's old news....put him out to pasture.
What Karl Rove likes or doesn't like about President-elect Obama's decisions is as interesting and relevant to me as how many Labrador retrievers can fit into a VW. Karl: Crawl back under your slimey rock and stay there!
Bush was always blind to the suffering he helped to cause. He cares not for the innocent Iraqis whose lives have been destroyed, the people who suffered thru hurricane Katrina, the 50 million Americans who live without health insurance, the soiled reputation of America. The list of Bush failures is endless and the fact is this man is a criminal who knowingly and willingly lied to engineer the greatest fraud in US history, The Iraq War. Bush and his co-conspirators should face justice for thier crimes.
Can"t wait for Rove to write his tell all book, you know he has secrets that he is just dying to reveal.
Who cares what Karl Rove thinks? The fact that he did orchestrate Bush's two terms is nothing to recommend him. Look what a mess we're in and it's all Bush's and the Neocon's fault!
This is what happens when you eliminate regulation. Even Alan Greenspan underestimated the greed of the Bushies and t heir buddies!
Rove needs to go sit in a corner somewhere and think about what he's done to this country!
Susan
Macedon, New York
This coming from someone in an administration that has tanked the economy and believes only the wealthy should have health coverage paid for totaly by their place of employment while everybody else has to pay out of pocket for less coverage.
"Change" I am starting to lose faith in. Maybe we can't?
Wait a sec....did I just see a pig flying overhead?
After all of the negative comments that I read from Dems about Rove, how could they possibly agree with anything that he says? But they will say "He is right this time"?
who cares what Rove says...he should move to Alaska and coach Palin into seceding from the Union and starting Wingnutlovia...and all the Wal-Mart trampling gay hating bigots can all move up there and teach creationism to their obese kids
Oy, that we should be listening to anything Karl Rove says after he's left his grubby finger prints on Bush's so-called legacy is proof that we haven't learned from our mistakes and are doomed to repeat them.
so, basically, if Rove agrees with you, then you are doing something asnine. i get it now...
This scumbag should be in handcuffs.
Oh, gag. As if anyone would believe anything that man says - WHY is anyone still asking him questions about ANYTHING??!?!?!
After he picked Biden for a running mate, that was the red flag that his rhetoric of change wasn't going to live past the campaign ads and now he's even getting Kudos from the guy who gave W all of his myopic ideas. I imagine we'll still be in Iraq in 4 years, we'll still have an economic mess and not a single progressive social idea will be advanced. Health care is the DNC equivalent of what abortion is to the GOP, it brings out the base and makes for good speeches, but there's no pragmatic incentive in actually deliver on any promises regarding it. Why would you give people what they want, when it's the desire for it that motivates them to go to the polls. Simple concept, yet the plebeians keep going back to their two parties every 4-years for a fresh serving of disappointment.
Yes – Obama is the leader for these times. Godspeed to him and us.
This creep should never be allowed to speak on TV for life.He should be in jail for the balance of his life with Bush,Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Only if you say so mr O V E R ....U sank the economy.
Is there any opinion more discredited than Karl Rove's? Why should we listen to the architect of extreme partisanship, the designer of a portfolio of foreign policy disasters, the mastermind of internal spying and Guantanamo, the guiding light of economic chaos, the stacker of courts and government agencies? Everything Karl Rove did led to complete disaster and an undermining of American principles. His plan to make America a one-party country succeeded . . . for the other party. This guy belongs in Alaska with Palin.
I am not to proud to beg...
No more Rove...pretty please!
Rove is an indicted has been who deserves prison time. He can't put his personal hatred of Ted Kennedy aside for the good of the nation. He has large responsibility in the Bush train wreck that we now must face.
Only Rove would speak up like this because maybe he's gonna need a j-o-b!!! This out of touch neo con needs to back out gracefully and shut up.
Since when is universal healthcare an "extreme" position. People have a right to be treated for sickness and injury irrespective of their background or financial situation. Just as Independants and social conservatives believe a baby has a right to leave so does adults who have committed no crimes against humanity. Universal healthcare is not an extreme position but a humanitarian one.
Does Anybody Really care about anything that Carl Roves says or thinks anymore? Just because Fox hired him (no surprise there) after he had to leave the White House in, shall we say less than honorable conditions. So let's be honest, if he wasn't a paid advertisement on Fox for the GOP, where would he really be now? Just another washed up, old time political adviser who's tactics no longer work on the American people. Can't we lock him away in the past along with um, Palin?