From the "Who Needs Karl Rove When You've Got the New York Times" Department, there's this line from today's Adam Nagourney-Elisabeth Bumiller piece on the plight of the president's senior strategist: "One person who met Mr. Rove said he attributed Mr. Bush's problems more to external events, in particular Hurricane Katrina and Iraq, than to anything the White House did wrong."
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