{"id":3625,"date":"2006-10-15T23:30:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T06:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2006-10-16T01:48:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T08:48:38","slug":"washington-post-bush-rove-inexplicably-upbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3625","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Bush, Rove ‘Inexplicably Upbeat’"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were about to blog Washington Post’s<\/i> article<\/a> today on the “inexplicably upbeat” moods of both Bush and Rove these days.<\/p>\n

As we’re up against it right now, hammering away on a number of deadlines, several breaking items we’re trying to dig into, helping to coalesce VelvetRevolution.us<\/a>‘ continuing Election Protection Strike Force efforts, while preparing and packing to bug out for a number of upcoming speaking engagements and meetings around the state, we’re happy to see that HuffPo’s Bob Cesca<\/a> has already dug into this one for us….<\/p>\n

I’d like to present the following pictorial as a corollary to Sunday’s Washington Post article, White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects<\/a>, in which we’re presented with this ominous lead:<\/p>\n
“Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat<\/b>: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove.”<\/div>\n

“Inexplicably upbeat,” Michael Abramowitz wrote. The Post went further by reporting that Rove believes the Democrats will only gain a few seats — nowhere near the 15 needed to attain a majority in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Here now is the face of a man who is mysteriously, eerily, “inexplicably” and almost frighteningly upbeat about his and the GOP’s prospects next month:<\/p>\n

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Cesca continued…<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Blogger and BRAD BLOG<\/a> commenter Scottmandubious has a similar take<\/a> to Cesca’s, and may have even posted his first. In either case, we just noticed, so check him out as well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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