ABC’s The Note, still dumb as a door post …
The press and the Democrats are still demonizing Karl Rove’s involvement in anything and everything, expressing shock and horror that a deputy White House chief of staff with wide-ranging applicable experience is helping to oversee the Katrina response.
Then there’s Kurtz at the Post …
Delmar, N.Y.: Has their been an official announcement from the White House that Karl Rove is in charge of the Gulf reconstruction efforts? If not why have their been some reports such as from Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo website that this is the case? If it is true where is the outrage? Rove’s qualification as a political operative who is currently under scurtiny in the Plame matter would seem to make him as qualified to oversee reconstruction as Michael Brown was to be head of FEMA.
Howard Kurtz: Whatever you think of Rove, that strikes me as unfair. He’s a political guy, sure, but he’s the deputy chief of staff and was involved in the substance of almost all major domestic issues in the first term. The symbolism of naming Rove might be a problem, since he is a divisive symbol, but in terms of policy he’s no Michael Brown.
One other note, George Stephanopoulos <$NoAd$>seems to be the only member of our list from last week to raise the Rove question.
He got a standard party-line response from George Will. But, hey, he tried.
