Karl Rove spread lies that possible Obama VP pick beat wife

By GottaLaff

This book has more juicy little tales than C Street and the Palin household combined:

Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor by Matthew Latimer is not officially out until tomorrow, but that doesn't stop the Huffington Post from pointing some key passages [...]

Bush, when told that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig had been the latest GOPer to be caught in a sex scandal involving boys or men: "What is up with all these Republicans?"

We've pretty much been asking the same thing for years now. Moving on:

While Karl Rove was appearing on Fox News and writing op-eds as an independent political analyst, he was privately smearing Democrats. "Karl spread rumors through the White House that one of Obama's potential vice presidential running mates -- and a United States senator -- had beaten his first wife. 'Karl says it's true,' the president assured a small group of staffers. Then knowing Karl, he quickly added, 'Karl hopes it's true," reports Latimer.

Karl also hopes he doesn't land in prison. He's just the most hopeful little member of the Bush crime family ever! Maybe he should Obamicon himself with the word "hope" plastered across his big ugly mug.

Next:

For a commencement address at Furman University in spring 2008, Ed Gillespie wanted to insert a few lines condemning gay marriage. Bush called the speech too "condemnatory" and said, "I'm not going to tell some gay kid in the audience that he can't get married."

And how about that Susan Collins? Here's an idea, Sue: If you're jealous of Olympia's positive press, try earning some yourself...

Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is fond of sending angry, middle-of-the-night e-mails to staffers because she's frustrated that her colleague and rival Olympia Snowe gets more and better press. As a result, reports Latimer, she rips through press secretaries like 30-packs at a beer-pong tournament.

D'oh!