Bush’s Brain has dropped a book, all 608 pages worth. At two and a half pounds, that’s quite the pile. In it, his good friend [and most notable client] George Bush is depicted in glowing terms, more so, as Rove, holding himself up for comparison, willingly (read- deceptively) concedes he’s the lesser man.

While ostensibly a biography, this doorstop is really a revisionist resume. You can read about Rove’s history, emerging fully-formed in the late sixties as a Nixonian dirty-trickster, running about college campuses with BFF Lee Atwater trampling voters’ rights, but the real ink is spent inverting the deceit of the Bush Administration. Rove scribes that Bush didn’t lie us into war with Iraq, and falling on his own pen, states that his greatest mistake was not pushing back against critics that said Bush had. Clearly Bush did lie and Rove did push back, unless calling those that questioned the war ‘unpatriotic’ isn’t pushing back. But you have to admit, Rove is shrewd. His contrition is the parlor trick. Watch as I apologize for not upholding a truth that in reality is a lie. Plenty up his sleeve.

Last, I’ll take exception to the title of the tome, ‘Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight’. What courage? Courageous are the thousands of men and woman sent to fight and die in Iraq under false pretences. We ought not to define courage as growing fat on tearing down others as is the case with Rove’s career . What consequence? Only to the truth perhaps. What fight has Rove waged and to what end? To dissemble and destroy political clients’ opponents and their ideals- and I include the conservativism Rove pretends to champion by the way, without doing anything constructive to solve the countries lingering problems. That’s a helluva consequence.