Reality vs. Karl Rove

Hundreds of demonstrators swarmed
around Karl Rove's Washington DC home yesterday afternoon in an attempt
to engage the President's handler in a conversation about immigrant
rights:

Several hundred people stormed the small yard of President
Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, yesterday afternoon,
pounding on his windows, shoving signs at others and challenging Rove
to talk to them about a bill that deals with educational opportunities
for immigrants.
Protesters poured out of one school bus after another, piercing an
otherwise quiet, peaceful Sunday in Rove's Palisades neighborhood in
Northwest, chanting, "Karl, Karl, come on out! See what the DREAM Act
is all about!" Rove obliged their first request and opened his door
long enough to say, "Get off my property." "Seems like he doesn't want
to invite us in for tea," Emira Palacios quipped to the crowd. Others
chanted, "Karl Rove ain't got no soul." The crowd then grew more
aggressive, fanning around the three accessible sides of Rove's house,
tracking him through the many windows, waving signs that read "Say Yes
to DREAM" and pounding on the glass. At one point, Rove rushed to a
window, pointed a finger and yelled something inaudible.
Shortly thereafter, sirens shot through the neighborhood and Secret
Service agents and D.C. police joined the crowd on the lawn. Rove
opened his door long enough to talk to an officer, and the crowd
serenaded them with a stanza of "America the Beautiful." The protest
was organized by National People's Action, a coalition of neighborhood
advocacy groups based in Chicago. Leaders said they want Bush to
advocate for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors
Act, a bill that would permit immigrants who have lived in the United
States for at least five years to apply for legal resident status once
they graduate from high school. The measure would eliminate provisions
of current federal law that discourage states from providing in-state
tuition to undocumented student immigrants. Immigrant activists say
that 50,000 to 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high
school each year and that many students can afford college only at the
reduced, in-state rates given to legal residents.

It's been a pretty tough week for Karl Rove. If he wasn't such an evil prick I'd almost feel bad for him.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 29, 2004 at 07:47 AM | Permalink