Karl Rove will be in charge of rebuilding New Orleans

[CatWoman]

fuck, fuck, fuck!!!

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5615598.html

[despairing optimist]

1. I'm sure that Marie Antoinette was in charge of the farm at Versailles too

Don't worry too much about it. He won't last. At least Brownie was a horse trader. Rove's a horse thief, and with Plame the heat's on him. This may be a diversionary tactic or a desperate attempt to paint him in a more complimentary light, as if that were possible. It's the usual lipstick on the pig stuff, and New Orleans is no Miss Piggy! NO deserves, and will get, much better.

[gkhouston]

5. actually, it's a pretty stupid move, IMHO

He should have picked someone qualified and not so obviously known to be his crony. This will not play well in Peoria.

[despairing optimist]

11. I agree. It's a desperate, futile attempt to redeem Rove but won't work

For the same reason Brownie didn't work: loyalty doesn't trump competence when a vast project such as rebuilding a city is involved.

We're not talking about garbage-collection contracts here. Even Tony Soprano would be better qualified than Rove. At least the mafia is in construction.

Uh-oh. I'd better watch what I say. Well, Halliburton already snagged one contract, and the line between legitimate ripoffs and organized-crime ripoffs is pretty blurry nowadays, especially when Halliburton has armed mercenaries working in one of its subsidiaries. I guess it's the WASP mafia.

[RobertSeattle]

2. Or more like

Using hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars, on loan from Japanese and Chinese creditors, Karl Rove will be in charge of rebuilding George Bush's credibility New Orleans.

[Fovea]

3. Nouveau New Orleans

Karl will turn it into a theme park for closeted trophy-wife owning
talibornagains-- with lots of money.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Many of us have said this

an adult disneyland wiht as few of them pesky blacks as they can get away with

[Wabbajack]

10. talibornagains?

[CAcyclist]

13. Fundies nt

[Wabbajack]

15. What does the tali part mean?

[CAcyclist]

18. Taliban nt

[madaboutharry]

4. Karl Rove is going

to be building NO with a set of legos in his jail cell after he is indicted for outing a CIA agent. (Do you hear me God?)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. remember that Condi was in charge of Iraq reconstruction

throughout 2004. Remember how well that went? George just has this way of picking people who are perfect for the job.



perfectly useless, I meant.

[newswolf56]

7. By all accounts, Rove is a vicious autocrat, which means...

the reconstruction effort will be run accordingly, complete with deliberate malice toward blacks, fixed-income elderly, disabled people, the poor in general. With Grover Norquist, Rove is also the author of the administration's intentional effort to maximize the savagery inflicted by poverty -- this to make poverty and fear of poverty a flail with which to beat people into ever-more-frenzied competition in an ever-more-impossible rat-race. While the aristocracy of New Orleans will prosper obscenely, the people there will suffer as they have never suffered before.

[wurzel]

9. I feel better already.

Honest Karl. We can all relax.

[mcscajun]

12. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGH!!!!!

What could possibly be worse?

Nothing.

What Robert Moses did to The Bronx and New York, Rove will do to Louisiana.

:cry:

[Ignacio Upton]

14. Ironic considering that "Brownie"

a political crony is largely responsible for FEMA's incompetence, and yet another patronage appointment is supposed to help people in NOLA?

[npincus]

16. another political HACK in a position of responsibility

[tinfoilinfor2005]

17. This is tantamount to bush taking out his

pecker and wiggling it in the face of the whole state of Louisiana.

Beyond disgusting.