"And it’s clear that this is — that this is the same old style politics that we grew to really dislike in the 1990s, when the White House thought everything through from a political perspective, road-tested it by running polls and focus groups and did everything with a very keen eye towards the politics of the matter, not what was in the best interests of the country."
Do these guys not understand they're nothing but a comedy show?
Think Progress goes into a little of Karl Rove's 1990's political history, but really, the man refuses to go before Congress because he's afraid he'll slip up and America will discover his "old style politics" will land him in the slammer.