Is it really true that President Bush has put White House spinmeister Karl Rove — admittedly a brilliant political strategist but nonetheless a propagandist by trade — in charge of the largest reconstruction effort in U.S. history, as some media have reported? If so, that does not inspire confidence that Bush is thinking primarily of results, not image.
Bush has resisted calls from his own party to appoint a visible reconstruction czar — a Tommy Franks, say, Colin Powell or even Dick Cheney — to oversee the massive effort.
Anyone else taken aback by Rove overseeing this? My complaint simply is: What makes him qualified?
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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We now know that you do not have to be qualified for anything in this administration, just well connected. There is still time to buy Halliburton stock before it peaks.
I haven’t found anyone involved with this administration qualified to do anything other than benefit themselves…especially Shrub. You just have to wonder what pictures Rove has of the president and a pet goat, don’t you? Or is Bush more stupid than any of us have fathomed?
Qualifications? At least as good as Brown had at FEMA and it will look good on his resume’ in 2009.
I start to shake when I think of the next 3 years. I have 2 teenage boys…will they be forced to fight in Venezuela, Iran or Syria in the next couple of years? Our economy is a time bomb.
We can’t impeach Bushy…we would be left with Cheney!Why can’t we recall the whole administration like they did in California and have a new election this November?
Of course it’s true, Randy! Rove controls the universe, he is the puppetmaster! Rove is God.
Apparently there is very good medication and therapy available for paranoid delusions. Do us a favor, get some.
Randy
To answer your question, I went straight for the OED and one of my favorite words: propinquity.
“Propinquity: Nearness, closeness, proximity: a.in space: Neighborhood 1460. b. in blood or relationship: Near or close kinship. late ME”
As my older brother MF says, ‘nothing propinqts like propinquity.’ And in the Bush crime family, Randy, that’s all the qualifications one needs.
Oh, and Jiminy, given the way this administration goes on profiting from disasters, I’d suggest that what we the electorate really need to be medicated for is anxiety. Give the delusion meds to the members of the Rove Administration.
Late-breaking rumor in the pipeline: Andrew Card to replace John Snow as Treasury Secretary. Card’s finance or banking qualifications? Zero.
Great Leader W’s response: ‘What me worry?’
Rove has put himself in charge of stopping the rebuilding of New Orleans. He wants the money to make more wars.
No wonder you people couldn’t win an election to save your lives. A 40 watt bulb has more candlepower.
Wait–Jimmy’s right. Everything is fine. We’ve all been going on about nothing. Ignore what your ears, eyes, and hearts are telling you, and repeat:
Everything is FINE.
There. Don’t you feel better? Isn’t Karl Rove a NICE MAN?
I don’t see where Rove has been officially named as heading up the Katrina re-building effort. Of course, that doesn’ mean that he hasn’t been.
I do think the opposition gives him too much credit and power. He is no smarter than the average gossip monger, pornographer, or any other type who knows how to pander to the worst in human nature.
I say give him and G.W. as much rope as they need. They may prove their ways of doing things work, or maybe they won’t.
Or, they may hang the whole country in the process!
Jimmy,Didn’t you know? It’s like I told Carl the other day, everything, even Katrina, is for the best, in this best of all possible worlds!
A 40 watt bulb? I didn’t think that you were that bright, judging by your opinions, but there’s no arguing with a dim-wit.
KKKarl Rove’s days are numbered. Choir-boy prosecutor Fitzgerald is going to drop the bleeding sword of justice on his sorry butt in October when the Grand Jury rules on the Plame evidence.
Sure, they’ll stall and appeal and equivocate. But they can’t keep hold back the flood forever.
High level Watergate type investigations to usher in the 2006 campaign season. Bush DISapproval at an all-time high. Gas prices have doubled since W took office, and he hasn’t even TALKED about it.
I love the smell of reactionary flop-sweat in the morning . . .
==============TIME OUT:==============Between Tracy/Galahad’s smug delusions, Ed’s fanatical lunacy, and CF’s childish name calling, it’s impossible to do anything but laugh at the pathetic quagmire of the fever swamp.==================RESTART THE CLOCK:==================OK, swamp, you may now proceed to further prove your bona-fides as futile, hateful idealogues. Excuse us, poor dears, if our laughter seems insensitive.
Puny–
Back and bigger . . . I’m mean SMALLER than ever.
I want you to hang on to the sinking Titanic that is Bush as tightly as you can.
It’ll pull you down so far, you’ll never see daylight.
But you don’t seem to be getting out much the way it is . . .
Using the nickname Bush used for Brown, Kerry said, “Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq, what George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence, what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad, what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy, what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning, what Tom DeLay is to ethics and what George Bush is to ‘Mission Accomplished’ and ‘Wanted Dead or Alive.’ “
Dooda, It’s pasted your bedtime.
They ought to print the WSJ on dirty underwear, so that way they won’t need to write anything. Yuc..Yuc..Yuc…
Galahad, You nailed it. Clean shot. Bravo!
Kerry nailed it. Galahad posted it. But good show Galahad!
Hello in there Bisoni. Tell us…..what color is the sky in your world?
As to Rove, I think it is probably a mistake to put a guy in charge or in position of authority re the recovery of the gulf coast given that that guy will most likely be somewhat distracted by federal charges in the very near future. I don’t how Mr. Rove’s political assasination of John Mc Cain or his political retribution against Valeri Plume and her husband Joe Wilson qualify him in the work of disaster recovery,but as this administration seems to have embraced failure and corruption as some sort of quest, I guess i should not be surprised.
JR stands for “junior”. He’s a teenager who wishes he had a dad, and writes his comments as if he is the dad. Kind of pathetic, really. Sorry, JR, but this isn’t the place to learn how to grow up. There’s not much maturity in this blog.
Puny–
You keep changing your name but we recognize you by the stench your posts give off.
Hey, why don’t you take an hour out of your life and post another one of the rap poems.
Show us how a “mature thinker” posts . . .
If Rove is in charge, we might as well drop the word “recovery” and call it what it really is: “RAPE”.