Rove on immigration

Why the hell is the administration spinning for Rove? He's of no use now that Bush has used up his rule-the-country tickets.

ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove explained the Bush Administration's guest worker program and immigration policy at a luncheon Thursday by saying, "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas."

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Rove was not insulting those people in those jobs, the White House explained, he was, according to Perino, saying that every parent wants their child to have a high-skilled, high-wage job.

Uh OK, if that's what you say. But if I were Rove, I wouldn't expect nice smooth sheets in Las Vegas.

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