Matt Taibbi has a good takedown on Karl Rove. I especially liked this paragraph…
The reason Rove continues to survive is the same reason that Johnnie Cochran was called a genius for keeping a double-murderer on the golf course — because this generation of Americans has become so steeped in greed and social Darwinism that it can no longer distinguish between cheating and achieving, between enterprise and crime, and can't bring itself to criticize winners any more than it knows how to be nice to losers. He survives because an increasing number of Americans secretly agree with Rove's vision of rules, laws and "the truth" as quaint, faintly embarrassing rituals that only a sucker would let hold him back.
Sad to say, I think that's true. When was the last time you saw any shame in connection with what someone had to do to "win" in some situation? Some people will forgive anything in the cause of success…and wonder how anyone could fault them for what they felt they had to do?