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Bush Aides [KARL ROVE!] Berate [SHOUT AT!] 2 GOP Congressmen
By Jonathan E. Kaplan
May 11, 2007
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-aides-berate-gop-members-2007-05-10.html
Top Bush administration officials lashed out at a pair of House Republicans at the White House yesterday after details about a contentious meeting between President Bush and GOP legislators were leaked to the media earlier this week.
The CONFRONTATIONS are the latest indications of an INTENSIFYING RIFT between Bush and congressional Republicans.
Reps. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) attracted the ire of White House officials for allegedly speaking to reporters about a Tuesday meeting between Bush and centrist Republicans on the Iraq war. Details of the contentious meeting first emerged Wednesday evening and attracted Page 1 headlines yesterday.
Sources said that Dan Meyer, Bush’s liaison to the House, confronted LaHood while White House political strategist KARL ROVE REBUKED [Congressman] Kirk. It is unclear if LaHood or Kirk were the originial sources for the stories, but LaHood was quoted in one of the articles
