So the turd is calling it quits. After spending 6+ years helping to ruin the country, he feels it's time to move on, to be with his family (of course).

Dan Froomkin writes:

After years of being lauded as a political genius, Rove nevertheless leaves his party in worse shape than he found it, with his boss profoundly discredited in the eyes of the American people.

When historians look back at Bush's squandered opportunity to unite the country and even the world behind a shared agenda after 9/11, part of the blame will go to Vice President Cheney and the decision to invade Iraq. But part will accrue to Rove for choosing to use national security as a wedge issue.
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Rove told Gigot he first floated the idea of leaving a year ago and made his decision after White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten recently told senior aides that if they stayed past Labor Day they were committing to stay to the end -- to January 2009.

But is there some other reason? Is there some other shoe about to drop?

Rove taking orders from Bolten? Absurd. He hired Bolten. This decision is odd. Rove had many opportunities since the 2006 election to call it quits, why now?

Michael Tomasky has a great line, "There is, though, a silver lining: Rove may have indeed played a part in bringing about a political realignment. It just won't be the one he had in mind."