Karl Rove's exact words concerning "liberals."

According to today's Washington Post, the exact language Karl Rove used in a speech Wednesday to the New York state Conservative Party was, "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war. Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."

Would President Bush will ask Rove to apologize? White House press secretary Scott McClellan replies to reporters, "Of course not."
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As we witness the smugness, arrogance and insularity among senior officials of the Bush administration, recall the Greek Tragedies and the word the Greeks had for this trait -- hubris. It was their explanation of why big shots -- the rich, the famous, the powerful -- do the inexplicable things they sometimes do and often destroy themselves doing them.

Three thousand years later, it's still as good an explanation as any of what seems to be going on now in the White House.