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Nothing else the Bush administration ever did has been anyone’s fault. Why should the election results be any different?

Time’s Mike Allen has the first account of what Rove is saying about the election results. He (Rove) has conclusive proof that Iraq mattered, but not a whole lot. And he may or may not be saying that he had warned the Republican Party all along that they might get shit-screwed. But read it for yourself.

Other notable quotes:

“(President Bush is) not the one that’s going to sit there and point fingers at others,” Bartlett said.

No, certainly not. People who live in glass houses wearing only the emperor’s new clothes should never point fingers at others.

The Republican Party remains at its core a small-government, low-tax, limit-spending, traditional-values, strong-defense party.

At least the low-tax part is true. And maybe he only meant there are a couple of hard-core Republicans who do still believe in small government and sending troops to war with body armor.

Rove, by the way, is claiming a moral victory:

“People were talking 35, 40 or more and it didn’t happen,” he said. “There were a number of elections which were supposed to be close and ended up not being close.”

That must be why all those Republicans are high-fiving each other whenever they take a break from dancing jigs.