Pack Your Carpet Bag Karl, There's Money to be Made

At any rate, Josh Marshall thinks so.
As we suggested last night, and as President Bush has now put us on notice, the Gulf Coast reconstruction effort is going to be run as a patronage and political operation.

That's not spin or hyperbole. They're saying it themselves.

The president has put Karl Rove in charge of the reconstruction, with a budget of a couple hundred billion dollars.
Maybe it's time to stop relaxing and trying to enjoy this particular ...
This is a time when the country needs an opposition party. Every Democrat should be hitting on this. Take the politics out of the reconstruction effort. He put his chief spin-doctor in charge of the biggest reconstruction and refugee crisis the country's probably ever faced.
Come to think of it I predicted this myself, nine days ago.

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