"The last thing that we're looking for is advice on fiscal integrity or ethics from Karl Rove"

[BurtWorm]

Thus spake David Axelrod to Lois Romano of the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/ssi/wpc/vop_axelrod.html?hpid=topnews

MS. ROMANO: Can I get a reaction on what--on Dick Cheney’s comments, that there will be a high probability of a terrorist attack--that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear attack in the next few years?

MR. AXELROD: I think we all live with the reality that there is a threat, and it’s a grave threat. It existed during the years of the Bush administration. We’re living with it now. It’s something that the President is completely focused on and meets every day on these threats.

I was disappointed in the Vice President’s comments, not because he said--stated the obvious which is that there are threats that are grave, but that he suggested that somehow the President’s decisions on torture in Guantanamo would increase the likelihood of that.

You know, one of the things that I’ve been impressed by is the graciousness that President Bush has shown during this transition period and in the weeks--first weeks of this administration.

When he left, he wished us the best, and I believe that he meant that, and I--apparently, the memo didn’t circulate around the White House because I’ve seen, you know, what I consider tasteless comments by the Vice President, amazing comments by Karl Rove.

You know, the last thing that I think we’re looking for at this juncture is advice on fiscal integrity or ethics from Karl Rove. , anyone who’s read the newspapers for the last eight years would laugh at that.

So, I appreciate that President Bush has been so classy during this period, and I’m disappointed that some of the folks who worked for him didn’t--don’t share that.