Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod struck back at Karl Rove for his criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the deficit, slamming him for his “sheer audacity and shamelessness.”Last week, The Washington Post invited several political operatives to offer their advice to the Democratic Party for 2010. Rove was asked to contribute, and offered this criticism: “They raised discretionary spending by 24 percent from President George W. Bush’s last full-year budget and will run up more debt by October than Bush did in eight years. ”
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