So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night

By Joseph Galloway

McClatchy Newspapers

So leaves the spinmeister himself, Karl Rove, the biggest rat yet to skitter down the hawser of the SS Bush Titanic, heading off to "spend more time with his family" and less time looking over his shoulder for the subpoena servers.

What will the historians say of this pudgy, balding fellow who was called Bush's Brain, the man who so skillfully set the ambushes and laid the bouncing-betty mines that would kill or maim far better candidates than the one he helped rise to elected office at least six levels above his competence?