How pathetic is it that Bush, relaxing in his August vacation, didn't even have the guts to stand up to a microphone and announce that Rove, a true centerpiece of his entire political history, was resigning?

The nugget was instead hidden in the friggin' SIXTH paragraph of that interview with the Wall Street Journal.

I'm guessing he was just too afraid - too self-conscious - to publicly announce something that folks have been clamoring for for years. He doesn't like doing anything that folks argue he has to do.

"And as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family, " say Rove.

Update: Joe at AMERICAblog notes how, despite all the "Architect" and "Bush's Brain" and "political wiz-kid" talk,

Rove has also helped make Bush one of the worst and least popular Presidents ever.

Update 2:Apparently Bush is in fact going to speak today, and then Rove, avec family, is going ride with him on Air Force One back to Texas for vacation.