Karl Rove’s appearance at the CMC Athenaeum on Monday night drew some press coverage. Here’s the Los Angeles Times story and here’s the Daily Bulletin story.

CMC Government Professor Jack Pitney was also recently quoted in some major papers.  The San Francisco Chronicle quoted him in an article about Gov. Schwarzenegger’s vow to veto the California state budget.

But there are potential downsides, said John J. Pitney Jr., a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College.

Although the Fall 2008 Athenaeum schedule has not been finalized, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd will be coming to CMC this semester.  Karl Rove is slated to speak September 15 as a Res Publica Speaker; Maureen Dowd will speak November 17 as a President’s Office Speaker, according to information posted on the Athenaeum website.

Living up to its reputation, the Athenaeum is bringing us two very ideologically opposed speakers.  In a recent column of Dowd’s, she criticizes Rove’s tactics:

“Actually, that sounds more like W.