In his departure from the White House, former senior adviser to the President Karl Rove got the works. A tearful thanks and goodbye from the President and First Lady, followed by a ride on the President’s helicopter to Air Force One. However, there was one thing missing from this scene that Rove desperately needs a dose of: justice.

Better known as the ‘Boy Genius’, Rove has been the epicenter of many controversies to rattle the walls of the White House. He has been linked to, though never charged, with the leaking the name of the CIA operative Valerie Plame and playing a part in the firings of 8 U.S. attorneys last year.

It is sickening to think a man can do so much damage to so many people, let it be the CIA outing, the firing of the attorneys or conducting the War on Terror, and still not getting his proper kick of karma.

If we lived in the medieval ages and Rove did then what he’s done now, he would have been taken to the town’s square and hung by his pinky toe. Sadly, public opinion has little to do with the outcome of judicial punishment on authority figures, and the victims of his tirades are no more than distant echoes of the past lodged between old newspaper clippings, and Youtube video clips.

In his final farewell Rove was quoted in regard to the Democratic attempts to investigate his role in the U.S. attorney firings:

I’m Moby Dick, and we’ve got three or four members of Congress who are trying to cast themselves in the part of Captain Ahab — so, they’re going to keep coming,

The major difference between Karl Rove and Moby Dick: Moby Dick was the victim, minding his own business in the sea, while Captain Ahab just couldn’t find it in his heart to leave the poor mammal alone. Rove’s victims have more in common with Moby Dick, than Rove ever will.
—Eming Piansay