Rove, Leaving a Sour Taste

"MR. SNOW: I'm not going to tell you. (Laughter.)

"Q Has any White House lawyer spoken to you about the case?

" MR. SNOW: Again, I just -- didn't I just tell you that I'm not going to tell you who I've spoken with?

"Q I'm just asking.

"MR. SNOW: I know. Good questions. (Laughter.)"

You can hear all the giggles on the video . I wasn't there, so I can't say exactly how widespread it was. But it would have been more appropriate if some members of the press corps had instead demanded that Snow explain why he wouldn't answer.

White House Wanted Felony Provisions

Nothing exemplifies the gulf on immigration between the strident House Republicans and the moderate White House than the provisions in the House bill that would make being in this country without documentation a felony.

But wait!

Frederic J. Frommer writes for the Associated Press: "Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, who has pushed a tough border security bill through the House, accused President Bush on Wednesday of abandoning the legislation after asking for many of its provisions.

" 'He basically turned his back on provisions of the House-passed bill, a lot of which we were requested to put in the bill by the White House,' Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., angrily told reporters in a conference call. 'That was last fall when we were drafting the bill, and now the president appears not to be interested in it at all.' . . .

"He said it was the White House that had requested two controversial felony provisions in the bill the House passed last winter.

" 'We worked very closely with White House in the fall in putting together the border security bill that the House passed,' he said. ' . . . What we heard in November and December, he seems to be going in the opposite direction in May. That is really at the crux of this irritation,' he said of Bush."