I am linking to Jane’s post on the reconstruction of New Orleans. Jane is a great newish voice on the Internet and deserves the credit for the research. She writes about a variety of subjects from some of the funniest posts I have read to some with the most pathos and now some great political research. I added one little link to an article from the New York Times. The person speaking in the block quote is Jane.
Truthfully a friend had told me this last week before it was announced and swore me to secrecy. I didn’t believe my friend at first; but will always from now on. Promise, and I think I owe my friend my life’s savings as I keep on losing bets about this administration.
If theres’s one person I hate as much as I hate Bush, if that’s possible it’s Karl Rove
Bushi never said “fire” so just cross out the word fire. Good job! What he said & what all of us misheard was when he used the word “HIRE”.
You see, fellow dumb Americans, such as myself, Bushi has appointed aka HIRED Karl Rove to be in charge of the Gulf Coast reconstruction plan. (Looks like he’s on the right track to repeat history Michael Brown!). Afterall, he’s gotta spread the wealth. It can’t just be Halliburton that’s gonna get richer off this!I assume some of you out there are skeptics and, well, it figures! Bushi is just trying to do something out of goodwill & it figures you liberals are gonna twist things all screwy.
I’m sure he’s learned from his questionnable hiring of the former head of FEMA, Michael Brown, aka horse-awarder-firee to put only qualified people in high places.So, I’ve decided to lay out Rove’s qualifications for you party poopers. They are as follows:
1992 ~ Fired from the Bushi Gubernatorial Campaign for planting a disparaging story about a Bushi with Bob Novak.
2000 ~ Smear campaign against Decorated War Veteran, John Mc Cain ~ Rove suggests former POW McCain committed treason and fathered a child out of wedlock. After Rove denied role in McCain Whisper Campaign, reporters concluded he was behind it. They dubbed this Decorated Vietnman War Veteran, Mc Cain “The fag candidate”. (and it was Bushi who was the cheerleader!)
2003 ~ Identifying a covert CIA agent. Of course, this was in retaliation for Valerie Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, reporting the FACTS regarding Iraq & WMD.
(a federal crime)2005 ~ Lying to the grand jury about knowledge of the leaking of Plame’s name.
(another federal crime)
Okay, we impeached a president because he lied about a blow job, but where’s the investigation into Rove’s behavior? Or are we giving Bush another free pass, along with a get out of trouble and enhance your career card to Rove?
If you’re an American and don’t see the double standard in this then I feel very sorry for you for the following reasons:
Monica Lewinsky was a dupe in a scheme by Ken Starr, the Republican led house, and in this particular case, Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg to rid the country of Clinton. Do you think that they really cared about Clinton’s sex life? Of course not. It was the absolutely worst thing that they could find to pin on him.
Is having extra-marital sex a worse crime than committing treason? Oh but you don’t know if Rove and Bush, and face it he was part of it, were guilty. Then where’s the investigation?
I admit to having hated Rove since he came into my city and talked about “liberals wanting therapy for terrorists,” when in fact they would be taking numbers to see who could hang Bin Laden; and most of us don’t believe in the death penalty. It’s one of the many reasons we’re relecting Bob Morgenthau, an 86 year old year old man, Manhattan District Attorney.
But most of us feel a little differently when it comes to terrorists. So when Rove was outed the next week or so as the source in the Rove/Wilson mess, it made me want to hang him also.
Right now we are seeing Americans at their finest; opening their hearts, and pockets to people who suffered in Katrina.
Because I love this country I want to see it reclaimed by the people, for the people. Not by Bush for Rove for Halliburton. Before you go calling me a Socialist and telling me how you love the country and how wonderful Bush is, it’s you who needs to examine your moral values.
My moral values are just fine thank you.
Lying over sex; stupid to impeach a president for. Lying over probable treason; a great reason to impeach a president. And that’s just the beginning.
Why was Karl Rove promoted when he should have been put on leave? Does any of this make any sense?
This will be crossposted at Bring it on! Thursday, September 22 with a slightly more virulent ending and many links
If you haven’t read Janes loves Tarzan read it. How can you not love a woman with a man named Tarzan?
You mean Monica Lewinsky purposely had sex with Clinton? Now all she does is eat at trendy restaurants in Manhattan with Chelsea Clinton sitting nearby. She’s a heffer!
It’s just one symptom of the arrogance of the Bush administration, and it’s belief (so far well-founded) that it can do whatever it wants with impunity.
You know, I get why finding Osama is hard. I’m mystified why reading resumes is hard. I do it all the time and while the bullet points can be kind of confusing with a little focus it is do-able. And I’m an idiot.
Wow Pia, I’m honored! I think Bushi has either removed or bought off the checks & balances we have in place to investigate treasonists like Rove.
But I really don’t think it’s Bushi calling any shots. I honestly am beginning to believe our president is Rove. Why didn’t Bushi react to the hurricane for 5 days? Well, Rove was in the hospital with an infection! He didn’t have his ‘brain’ feeding him common sense.
He needs to be impeached!
In the Bush Administration, failure is met with promotion. The only ones who get canned are the whistleblowers. If a complete idiot does finally leave (ie Brown) it was their idea.
You must also remember the motto of this administration “Government by the rich and corporations and for the rich and corporations.”
Pia, I am so glad that you are letting folks know about this post. When I first read it I was astounded and even asked Jane where she heard it. Sure enough it is true! I thought surely it must be a mistake! Ah well, the craziness continues.
Pia, your post reminds us all that, despite natural disasters, we should not loose our sharp focus on the outcome of the grand jury investigation of the plame leak.
As we ratchet past 1900 GI deaths in Iraq inching toward 2K and the number of dead in the Gulf Coast slinks like the reaper past 1K, we must work dilligently to hold the bastards accountable.
Michael Moore has an interesting video clip today on his front page. I linked up in case you want click over rather than type into your browser.
Blog on Sister.
Our President is Cheney, but Rove is the Oscar Winning Director.
I as you may or may not know grew up more or less reading the Washington Post just due to location, the nyt as well but i lived outside of DC for some time and many of my friends and family at any given time worked inside the beltway. I am totally disappointed in the Washington Post for letting this whole Rove thing slide or at least not pursuing it as they should be.
It’s so true. I’ve insisted for a while that Bush is not really that bad of a guy (dumb as a rock, of course), but he actually seems to want to be a “uniter”.
He went wrong by using the already entrenched Republican/Fascist society (PNAC) as his staff. Read the Newsweek article on how Bush screwed up the Katrina situation. It makes it clear who the real villain was: not Bush, not the local government, but Bush’s cronies who maintained nothing was wrong, while every news channel painted a very different picture.
Jane rocks!
Thanks for always speaking out, Pia. It does just seem to go on and on and on. Seems like they are able to use their power, money, and influence to make anyone who dares oppose them look foolish.
Bush…what a dumbass. Makes me happy I’m a Canadian
I’m so glad America is waking up and smelling the coffee, but its such a tragedy that it took such huge human suffering and then blatent administral incompetence to shake people out of their BushTrance.
I got here because I couldn’t believe you had a category for “Karl Rove”, and curiosity got the best of me. Yeah, I’m late, I know.
I really don’t fear Bush likie I do Rove and Cheney and Rumsfeld. The only other person I have as much contempt for is Tom Cruise.
Was anyone really SURPRISED that Karl Rove is overseeing the reconstruction in N.O.? Or that no-bid contracts have already gone out to his and Cheney’s cronies? This is an administration where failure is REWARDED (“You’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie”).
I don’t think W is even the evil force here. I think he’s just a puppet. Rove is the one with his hand up Bush’s backside, and Cheney is calling the shots.
That’s why I have to disagree with cries of “Impeach Bush”. Do you realize what that would LEAVE us with? And look at the health history of Cheney–he’s obviously made a deal with the devil, because he already should have been dead about nine times, and I’m pretty sure he eats babies. Or at least drinks their blood. And then makes out with Rove, while Rummy watches.