A bizarre twist to the normal anti-Bush protests happened over the weekend.
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.
I know that when I want to talk with someone about an issue, I often round up several hundred of my closest friends to go to the person’s house and start pounding on the windows. I find it’s very helpful in starting a dialogue.
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.
Emira Palacios. She lives in Wichita. Her address is….. nah. As fun as it might be to hold a counter rally outside her home, you know the press would spin it as intimidation by the mean conservative bullies. So I wonder why it’s okay to do it to Karl Rove?