The insidious festering flesh blob called Karl Rove has left the White House, but his putrescence will remain for a long time.

Before flesh blob, the Lone Star state of Texas was run by democrats and independents. In fact, Texas Democrats had controlled both houses of the State Legislature since Reconstruction. Perhaps it was bound to happen, Texas has always leaned “conservative” and the Republican party co-opted the word long ago. Don’t forget they killed Kennedy there.

But Fleshy forced it along ruthlessly. Never one for a stand-up fight, he took the state for the Republican party through tampering, redistricting, and criminal campaign finance deals, with Joseph Goebbels’s dairy clutched tightly in his man purse. Then, looking badly bloated, he set out to perform the same steaming turd job on the country. On January 20, 2001 the Presidency was stolen, and Karl redefined the word partisan. Power for the sake of power. Power for the sake of the party. Happily, it was his undoing.

Still, we mourn the division, the hatred, the ruinous policies, and everything else he used to his advantage. We mourn the Lone Star, but the country has not yet been consumed. Silly flesh blob, parties are for the People.

Karl Rove. White House, 2007