Republican Jeffretiri pleads with Republican Moses

This, stolen and repurposed from Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments”.

Jeffretiri: Oh, Turdblossom, build this city for him, and Bush will deny you nothing.

Rove: I will build this city for the love of Bush, not for the throne of 'Murrica.

So I was thinking lurid thoughts to myself, like I do, wondering “Who would be the worst possible human being currently resident on the face of the Earth to ramrod the rebuilding of NOLA?”

In the wake of the monumental failure of the Bush Administration’s idea of replacing the Regular Federal Government Coffee you’re used to drinking with “New, Crony Crystals (Now with Extra Privileged White Boy Incompetence!)”, who is the poster-boy for hack partisanship at the expense of real governance?

Considering the staggering series of hatefully tone-deaf missteps the Bush White House has made – one right after another, day after day, up to and including immediately and automatically awarding plush contracts to war profiteering snugglebuddies and rallying the Senate to stop anything like an independent look at what happened pre-, during and post-Katrina – who would be the exact, evil Bizarro Universe opposite of the supple and humane political coalition-builder that this situation calls for?

Considering the degree of polity and unity it will take to make the NOLA rise from the dead and into Glory, who was it that said, “But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban; in the wake of 9/11, liberals believed it was time to… submit a petition.” in order to calculatedly divide just a little bit further a nation his mutilating strategies had already riven.

Who is the morally dead bottom-feeding, Phd-In-Ratfucking, CHUD behind the strategy of drowning honorable men in slime in order to get dishonorable douchebags elected to the highest office in the land?

Who outs good-guy spies for sport and pique, and then lies about it, and them giggles about his lies as he feasts on the organs of his master’s enemies in the Rose Garden.

Who just purely, giddily loves being hateful and adores being depraved more than any man in American Politics?

Who knows of no better time to kick a man than when he’s down...unless it's when he’s dead?

"Who”, I asked myself, “is not just unsuited, but uniquely unsuited to this job?”

And the same name kept coming up trumps every time I dealt the hand, but frankly, even though I do special yoga exercises every morning to keep my skepticism muscles limber, I was simply unable to expand my frame of contempt/reference for George Bush huge enough to encompass the possibility that he would appoint the very shambling, degenerate personification of the man-made disaster that is the Bush Presidency to the job of fixing its most spectacular and public failure.

Shows you what I know.

Alert Reader Lynn sent this Americablog link to Froomkin along to me.

Rove -- Yes, Karl Rove -- is in charge of Post-Katrina Rebuilding Effort
by Joe in DC - 9/15/2005 01:42:00 PM
I wish this was a joke. Clearly, this is nothing but a political campaign to save Bush's butt. Froomkin's column today has the details (and yes, I have become a Froomkin junkie):

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.
What the hell are Karl Rove's qualifications to rebuild a significant part of America? For Christ sakes, didn't they learn anything about putting political hacks in charge of life and death matters.

Noooo!

Clearly I am having one king hell bitch of a flashback. Clearly all of the microscopic beads of leftover psychotropic Pez have decided to open the bomb-bay door of my fatty tissues and drop en masse into my bloodstream, because No Way that they’re really tapping Karl Fucking Rove and his Abu Gharib Chainsaw and Sledgehammer Kickline to tackle the lengthy, complex and delicate surgery to our wounded body politic that will be required to bring the Gulf Coast back from the grave.

Ah, but sadly no.

How to I know?

Because the New York Times doesn’t deliver to my berserk subconscious.

This snip from the NYT:

September 15, 2005
Bush to Say U.S. Cannot Do Without New Orleans
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
and RICHARD W. STEVENSON

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.

As of Wednesday, few if any members of Congress had been informed by the administration of the president's plans. But Congressional leaders nonetheless offered Mr. Bush advice on his speech.

So there it is, and if you are still nursing the delusion that Bush has even a thimbleful of sincerity anywhere in his crisp, well-vacationed carcass – instead of being packed from crotch to crown with hay, sawdust and dumbass all held loosely together with a thin, vinegary “Fuck You” stucco -- then why on Earth would he dispatch Karl Fucking Rove to help lift a crippled city to its feet?

I can think of only one reason:

In the Delta, our Pharaoh is about to built his Treasure City on the bodies of those his folly has exiled or destroyed.

A last little bit from Cecil B. ...

Rove: Now, judge the results. The pylons commemorate your victory at Baghdad, where you broke the Saddamites.

Bush: Are there any higher in ‘Murrica?

Rove: None higher in the world.

Bush: With so many slaves, you could build an permanent majority.

Rove: But I have built a city. 16 of these lions of Pharaoh will guard its gates. And it shall be the city of Bush’s Glory.

Bush: Are these slaves loyal to Bush’s Glory, or to you, Karl?

Rove: Slaves worship their god And I serve only you.
Let your own image proclaim my loyalty, for a thousand years.

Don’t let it be written.

Don’t let it be done.