Rove and Bush Reunion

Fragment of a conversation overheard in the Oval Office during a recent visit of former advisor, Karl Rove to Washington, DC:

Karl Rove: You sent for me Mr. President?

President Bush: Hey Karl. Why don't you take a load off?

KR: I want to tell you how wonderful it is to be back in the White House. We certainly had some jovial times here, if you remember. But enough about me. You had something special you wanted to talk to me about sir?

PB: Yes I did Karl. I must say that we've been doin' just fine without you. I certainly did enjoy seeing you at the Prayer Breakfast last Sunday though. I noticed you're still a big eater. Really enjoyed that extra order of flapjacks and you weren't exactly stingy on the ol' butter and syrup either. We're going to have to give you a new nick name. something like Mr. Chubby or just Chub. Ya like it?

KR: Yes sir, just like old times. I have been on a diet. I do have a weakness for those pancakes though. Trigger food, I think they call it. But sir, I'm sure that's not the reason you called me. Can you try to remember what it was. I know you can do it if you just apply yourself.

PB: Trigger eh? Wasn't that the name of Roy Rodger's horse. A big palomino I think it was. Oats, that's what I thought Trigger food was. Horses, now that's a breed you can depend on. Highly intelligent, loyal, and never question what their told. And a horse never reminded a cowboy to "apply himself." I heard that a horse once even became a Roman Senator. Now those must have been fun times.

KR: Try to stay on task sir. I know you can do it.

PB: I sure wish you would remember that I don't appreciate it when you tell me what it is that I can and can't do. Keeping me "on task" as you smarty fartys call it: that's your Job One. Now what was it I was trying to say?

KR: You were talking about something that came up at the last Prayer Breakfast, sir.

PB: Yes yes, enough of this small talk. Oh yes, lets see, first Ol Patty Robertson gave that God awful long prayer. Then Naomi Jugs (he he) sang "Jesus Wants You for a Soldier", and then… oh yes I remember. You remember when Tom Delay said that he didn't think that a candidate like John McCain could win the presidency with a name like Cain. And I said its better than having a name like Hussein. You butted in and said that you thought that…"

KR: Yes sir I was just saying that we can remind the voters that after all Cain did beat Able. Right or wrong, he was a natural winner who was not adverse to a little properly applied violence in the pursuit of a cause. And he was a corn and grain grower. You know how much the Corn Growers Association donated to the Republican National Committee last year? And the Ethanol Lobby? I'm sure you can remember that sir.

PB: Ya ya its just that I don't like to be interrupted when I am finishing my point. It gets me all mixed up and sometimes I have to go back and start at the beginning.

KR: That you do sir.

PB: I wish you boys would remember that once and a while. Its not like the old debates with Kerry and the press conferences when I'm wearing my radio receiver.

KR: I'm sorry sir. Old habits die hard. Sometimes I forget.

PB: Well I just wish you'd pencil it in to try to remember it in the future when we get together. Can you do that Chub? Old buddy?

KR: Yes sir I will. It won't happen again. You are after all the Commander in Chief. Sir, while I'm here I hope you won't mind if I bring up something that is no doubt of small importance, but those missing emails have been on my mind lately.

PB: Oh yes. Don't they just go away when you turn off that computer thingy?

KR: No sir. If you had read the memo I sent you before my resignation, you would know that that's the problem.

PB: Like I told you, if you can't fit it on one of them little yellow post it pads, then it can't be all that important. I wish you would remember things better. You're not the only one. Since you left, I have had to break in a whole new bunch of green horns. I have to tell them: if you can't fit it on a post it or a teleprompter then it can't be all that important can it? They need to keep it short and sweet. I'm a busy man. Everybody seems to forget that I can't run this office all by myself.

KR: Yes Mr. President.

Thus endeth the fragment….

Robert Boldt an editor of MWC News, is a freelance film/video producer living in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is active in local politics, worked on the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and is a cofounder of The White Rose Collective. Articles by Bob Boldt at MWC News http://mwcnews.net/bob-boldt

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