Rove to head New Orleans reconstuction effort

From WaPo:

"Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort."

Rove's leadership role suggests quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: With an eye toward increasing the likelihood of Republican political victories in the future, pursuing long-cherished conservative goals, and bolstering Bush's image.

That is Rove's hallmark.

And so it is. Already BushCorp™ is pushing to use Katrina as an excuse for some long cherished Republican goals, things like lower wages for Katrina reconstruction laborers and a broad reduction in environmental standards. And they're also pursuing one of BushCorp™'s favorite tacks, using disaster to enrich its cronies and contributors through generous no-bid contracts to companies like, hmm, Idunno...Halliburton.

And so while BushCorp™'s Hack-in-Chief tries to build brownie points with a public increasingly wise to his ways, keep in mind the billions they're throwing at NOLA reconstruction will end up lining the pockets of the Veep's co-workers, and leave the people of New Orleans poorer.