So, our Dear Leader made an important announcement last night:

"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."

Many of us have doubts about whether our President can process prior information which led to disasterous outcomes, such as putting a horse show judge in charge of a critical Federal agency.



The lesson that we all would take from such a blatant display of cronyism is that qualified people need to be in charge of critical functions. Has the President learned the same lesson?



Let's see - what is Karl Rove's background that makes him qualified to lead a rebuilding effort? All I see is a political operative extraodinaire. Granted he's better qualified in cronyism that Michael Brown, but I see nothing to indicate expertise in administration, engineering, disaster reconstruction, or anything at all that pertains to rebuilding a city.

So, has the President not learned the lesson about putting unqualified people in critical positions? Perhaps, or it just might be that Rove really is qualified for the task before him and it's the public that hasn't yet learned that the mission isn't rebuilding New Orleans, rather it's strengthening the cronyism network tied to the Republican Party. Really, how plausible is it that a man can repeatedly fail to learn lessons that we all see as elementary. No, the game is deeper - too many of us are simply too innocent, or willfully blind, to even see the lessons that are learned and acted upon.