Just a quick note from the Florida Panhandle...

In addition to being craven, unctuous, patronizing, dishonest, blustery and opportunistic, we can also duly note that Governor Jeb Bush (Future Overseer of Plantation U.S.A.) is also barking mad.

In other news...

Senator Kerry has announced he will be voting against John Robert's nomination for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Now watch for the shrieking accusations of timidity and indecisiveness from Joan Vennochi, Randy Rhodes, Eileen McNamara and Scot Lehigh...paragons of lonely courage all of them.

Romney Finds an Escape Capsule?

Jon Keller is floating the notion that Mitt is on La Famiglia Arbusto's short list to lead the Katrina Recovery Effort.

I wonder who in the admin leaked this story?

Well if its true, then we can see the political parameters of Romney's exit from office quite clearly. He will resign, not to escape the guberatorial grind but to take care of those poor unfortunates down in the Bayou.
Good God if I didn't feel sorry for Katrina's victims before, I sure do now.
Romney is a cold, opportunistic, wealth worshipping dilettante and a great patronizer of the poor...a predictable choice on the part of the Bush Admin.
He "saved" the Salt Lake Olympics thanks to thousands of Mormon Volunteers and millions of dollars in licensing fees...none of which will be available in the wreckage of New Orleans.
The man is a palpable fraud and a more than a little spineless...yet he has been built up into a sort of 21st Century Adminstrative Genius by the usual lackeys and sycophants.

Mitt, Listen to me, as much as I want you out, if the call comes from Bush, turn the job down. The People of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi have suffered enough, they don't need you on the job....they just don't.

Look this link over and

in particular remember this face.

What a nasty dissolute punim...that boy just can't wait to punish us all.

Look at the utter hate in his eyes...like he wants to strangle the photographer or something.

Well give him time, 25 or so years from now he'll be running for President on a promise to abolish all public revenue, exile the democrats to the Phantom Zone and give da gummint back ta da grown-ups.

Just you wait!

John Kerry speaks at Brown University today...

and calls an entrenching tool, an entrenching tool among other things.

Oh...Good...

According to Yesterday's New York Times, Karl Rove is on the job in Louisiana:

"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."

Now watch, soon enough Karl will have the NOPD in firefights with the NOFD, with the survivors being shipped out to Guantanamo Bay. After that Karl can spread the money around to the local grass-eaters and sundry loyalists...and who knows maybe if the President's approval ratings go up a bit he can finally simply put all the democracts behind barbed wire.
With Rove on the job a catastrophe of nature followed by a catastrophe and neglect, ineptitude & arrogance will now be capped by a catastrophe of malevolent commission.

Sick
Demented
Typical...

Lawrence Novak resigns...

as the State GOP's Vice Chairman over allegations that he was laundering drug money for a convicted dealer.
And of course, champion enablers that they are, the Boston Globe relegates the story to the back of the Business Section.
Now watch, a decorous ninety or so days will pass then DA Sullivan's office will quietly announce a plea bargain and the whole thing will be deftly swept under the rug.
Novak will end up picking up trash by the side of Route 95 North or sport an electronic bracelet on his ankle....and the mystery of the Local GOP's gold will remain that, a mystery.