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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] If you've asked yourself who Mr. Bush will put in charge of the reconstruction efforts, we've got an answer. Did you expect someone with a great deal of experience with such reconstruction matters? You might have, but instead you got... Wait for it... Wait for it... [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/politics/15bush.html]Karl Rove![/URL] [QUOTE]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, which reaches across many agencies of government and includes the direct involvement of Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development.[/QUOTE]I was pointed to that by [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/15/BL2005091501098.html]this[/URL] atricle.... [QUOTE]Who's in Charge? Karl Rove! By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Thursday, September 15, 2005; 12:00 PM All you really need to know about the White House's post-Katrina strategy -- and Bush's carefully choreographed address on national television tonight -- is this little tidbit from the ninth paragraph of Elisabeth Bumiller and Richard W. Stevenson's story in the New York Times this morning: "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. Rove, Bush's long-time political adviser and the "architect" of Bush's ascendancy, was rewarded after the 2004 election with a position at the White House with overt policy responsibilities. But whereas in some previous White Houses, governance took precedence over campaigning once the election was safely over, Rove has shown no sign of ever putting policy goals above political ones. (See my Rove profile.)[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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