Karl Rove Has 'Sympathy' for David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel

Politico: “I have a certain sympathy for [them because of] the criticism,” continued [Karl] Rove, White House senior adviser and political “architect” for President George W. Bush. ”There’s been a lot of attention paid to … warfare ostensibly between David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel,” he says. “There’s a tendency by the press to overplay that, and so I have a little sympathy for them on that. But I do think the press has got it right, that the administration has a disengaged, aloof president who has not set the tone with regard to legislation.”