envy. He began setting traps for me that would allow him to chew me out in public, and would be visibly pissed off when I would avoid them. I'm currently making twice as much as he made in his best year, but that's not the main point: He was a guy for whom power meant the power to harass, the power to humiliate. If it also got the job done better -- which it almost never did -- that was fine, but the point was to feel superior. "Even if you never met him, you know this guy," Rove said, per Christianne Klein. "[Obama's] the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by." He's the guy who stands in the stall next to you in the men's room at a fancy restaurant and starts up a conversation just as the last drops are falling off, and you want to be polite, but damn, you really want to wash your hands... He's the guy at the black tie fundraiser who's always ready to bet you $10,000 over some bullshit, just because the sum is of no consequence to him: "I've got $10,000 that says it won't rain tomorrow." Hell, at lunch today I got in my car and drove around listening to Rush and was able to catch the precious moment when he said "Either we're outnumbered and losing ground