Exploiting Katrina
posted by Rick at 1:08 AM

In his White House Briefing column in the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin points out the obvious: as in all things from 9/11 to gay marriage, the Bush administration puts politics before governance.

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."

That explains why Bush felt a need to spend taxpayer dollars jetting down to the Crescent City so he could continue to interfere with the ongoing recovery effort for a photo op in front of St. Louis Cathedral.