Investigating Karl Rove's Garage

Posted on October 23, 2005

While we're all waiting around to see if Patrick Fitzgerald is really going to convince the grand jury to issue a slew of indictments on Tuesday, perhaps we can find some clues as to what's going to happen in Plamegate by peeking inside Karl Rove's garage.

On the morning of October 13, 2005, journalists were lurking around Rove's house. Finally Rove's wife, Darby, raised the white garage door to show them that Rove wasn't home the day before. That was a tactical error on Darby's part: the garage is so jam-packed full of junk you can't even park a car inside it. Which of course leads to terrible headlines from the Associate Press and a full story on how junky Rove's garage is.

He is "the architect" who steered George W. Bush to victory four times, twice as Texas governor and twice as president. But can Karl Rove organize his own garage? Can the master of Bush's political planning figure out where to put the ladders, paint cans and cardboard boxes?
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The inventory, seen from outside:
-Some cardboard file boxes stacked one on top of the other, labeled "Box 6," "Box 4" and what appears to be "Box 7." No sign of boxes 1, 2, 3 and 5.
-What appear to be paint cans stacked alongside a folded, folding chair.
-A rather large wood crate marked "FRAGILE" and painted with arrows indicating which way is up. On top of the crate, two coolers.
-A tall aluminum ladder.
-A snow shovel leaned in front of another cardboard box.
-Wicker baskets inside of wicker baskets on top of a shelf running the length of the rear wall. Transparent plastic storage bins crammed with indiscernible stuff. Another cardboard box.
-In one corner, the rear wheel of a bicycle sticks out, along with what appears to be a helmet.
-Another ladder, this one green, leaning sideways.

You can see the photo of Karl's garage here. "Wicker baskets inside of wicker baskets"? "Transparent plastic storage bins crammed with indiscernible stuff"? Very, very suspicious.