Call me a cynic, but why do I think that something major is about to hit the fan? Karl Rove willingly walking away from access to power? There must be something more here. And the fact that he uses a variation of "spending more time with my family" (which invariably seems to be code for something else) is highly suspicious.
Oh well, all's well that ENDS.
White House political guru Karl Rove is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
Rove "first floated the idea of leaving a year ago. But he delayed his departure as, first, Democrats took Congress, and then as the White House tackled debates on immigration and Iraq, he said. He said he decided to leave after 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."
[Taegan Goddard's Political Wire]
