Karl Rove, Bullish on the Budget and the Border

[rodeodance]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/15/AR2006051501217.html

Karl Rove, Bullish on the Budget and the Border

By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, May 16, 2006; Page A02

It's a heck of a curse.

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."


Karl Rove tried not to stray from policy into politics during a speech yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute. President Bush's senior adviser did, however, trip himself up with a heck of a poor choice of words.

A national political reporter for the Post, Milbank writes Washington Sketch, an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress and elsewhere in the capital. He covered the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns and President Bush's first term. Before coming to the Post as a Style political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for the New Republic and Congress for the Wall Street Journal.

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."

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[Bucky]

1. It's bad when a common, banal idiom becomes short hand for them fucking up

[AndyTiedye]

2. It Does Seem That KKKarl is a Bit Off His Game

One might even say he's doing a heck of a job.
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