Republican mastermind Karl Rove says his party got the best of Democrats in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit.
Rove, the architect of former President George W. Bush’s two successful campaigns, penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he credited Republicans for convincing President Obama and congressional Democrats to swallow the pill on spending cuts.
“House Republicans adroitly shifted the debate’s focus from how much to raise the debt ceiling to how much should spending be cut,” Rove argued. “They achieved this even while the other two centers of power in any legislative struggle—the Senate and the White House—remained in Democratic hands.”
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