Rove's Role in Rebuilding NOLA

[Bumblebee]

A great quote from Rahm Emanuel:

"Mr. Rove may be an expert on leaks, but that doesn't qualify him to oversee flood relief," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601488_2.html

[Wordie]

1. Wry. n/t

[chalky]

2. Love that. On Bill Maher tonight: "Why Rove? Yeah, he's KNOWN as the

'architect', but he's NOT REALLY AN ARCHITECT."

[Bumblebee]

3. There is a good letter in tomorrow's NYT

To the Editor:

A Sept. 15 news article said Karl Rove had reportedly been put in charge of the reconstruction effort in the Gulf Coast.

President Bush, by putting a political operative in charge, makes it clear that his priority is his political viability rather than real assistance to the people of the Gulf Coast.

This highlights his insensitivity to the important issues of destruction, loss, race and poverty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/opinion/l17bush.html?pagewanted=2

[kerrygoddess]

4. Krugman pegged it today

"The Heritage Foundation, which has surely been helping Karl Rove develop the administration’s recovery plan, has already published a manifesto on post-Katrina policy."

Check out the Heritage Foundation's plan - http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/sr05.cfm

MORE - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=575

[applegrove]

5. "New Money" (is not to be used since these are tax cuts). Only money

from government wasteful programs is to be used.

Perhaps we could just tax the old money?