Announced today in the Wall Street Journal: Karl Rove to Resign At the End of August. Paul Gigot has a good commentary on it. There's plenty of speculation on what it means but not many facts.
He apparently handed in his letter on Friday, but it didn't make the news till today. Monday in mid-August, hard to think of a better time to bury a story. "White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten told senior aides that if they stayed past Labor Day they would be obliged to remain through the end of the president's term in January 2009." So Rove didn't want to stay that long. Or maybe he thought with Purgegate he'll be a liability. The Libby outcome assures him he won't do jail time. Maybe he wants to help someone else in the next election (if anyone would have him). Or maybe he's just tired of working so hard.
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