Steve Clemons discusses what it feels like to be on Rove’s enemies list, and makes me wonder what has “been noted” about our efforts at BT:

During a recent major terrorism conference I organized, I hired a well-connected Republican consultant to help me fill out administration participation in the meeting. Considering that we were meeting amidst the Katrina disaster, my consultant did fairly well.

Apparently, both Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove were briefed about the conference — and I was told that the White House, at least Karl Rove, was well aware of the role that TWN played in helping to block the Senate’s confirmation of John Bolton as America’s Ambassador to the United Nations.

One of my unnamed friends who worked doggedly (and successfully) on President Bush’s reelection told me that my role in the Bolton fight had “been noted” by Rove, Karen Hughes and others — and that they really, really didn’t like being forced to make a recess appointment.

The reason for this preamble is that Rove allegedly stated that “Steve’s conference looks important and seems mostly balanced. We should participate, but the price for Bolton is that he won’t get a ‘Top Dog’ but we’ll give him a strong ‘Deputy Dog.'”

Note that these comments were reported to me second hand.

The President’s Deputy Chief of Staff may be the one in the dog house now.

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