PR people in specialist positions

Wow, I gotta hand it to W, he sure does look out for his own. The NY Times says that Karl Rove is in charge of the reconstruction effort in New Orleans. Karl "screw the CIA" Rove. Nope, no way, no cronyism will be happening here!

What a joke.

This comes right on the heels of a Republican poo-pooing of efforts to set up a bipartisan, 9/11 style investigation and revelations that one of W's first moves in the reconstruction was to cut the pay of the reconstruction workers (thanx for the last one, Neil). What the hell does it take to get the Bushites to stop this business-as-usual crap?

To cap the thread, this from Brian Williams:

I am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans warehouse district last night: there was rejoicing (well, there would have been without the curfew, but the few people I saw on the streets were excited) when the power came back on for blocks on end. Kevin Tibbles was positively jubilant on the live update edition of Nightly News that we fed to the West Coast. The mini-mart, long ago cleaned out by looters, was nonetheless bathed in light, including the empty, roped-off gas pumps. The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans. It's enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it... jump to certain conclusions.

The prosecution rests.