The Daily Background

Thank you, Washington Post copy editors. In other news, Howard Kurtz recently penned a column entitled “Karl Rove, fcuking asshole.” I guess Milbank requested something a bit more subtle. But besides that bit, there’s a few interesting notes I missed from Rove’s speech Monday at the AEI.

Presidential adviser Karl Rove had almost finished his appearance yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute when it happened. Discussing the Bush administration’s record on illegal immigration, he blurted out, “We’re doing a heck of a job.”

D’oh!

President Bush made the phrase a national shorthand for incompetence when he bestowed it on FEMA Director Mike “Brownie” Brown in the days after Hurricane Katrina. And Rove knew he stepped in it yesterday. First, he said the administration was doing “a heck of a lot better, uh, job of getting control of the border.” Then he uttered the forbidden phrase, and it sent him into a syntactical tailspin: “We’re doing a heck of a job — lot better job at getting, at getting, uh, the — the problem of catch-and-release under control.”

It should also be noted that Milbank referred to Rove as a ‘wonk’ in his article, which, while true, (wonk commonly refers to an expert) is a pretty funny word. I just, you know, thought I should note that. Full article.

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