Karl Rove.

(Hat tip to reader Kay.)

In the post immediately above this one, I see that Josh Marshall picks up on exactly the same sentence from Bush’s speech that I did.  Nice to see I’m not alone.

… from last night’s speech, and worse than they fact that they turned on the power only for Bush’s appearance, throwing the city back into the dark as soon as he was done, were some of the details of the speech itself.

It
shouldn’t take a math whiz to see that cranking out a few hundred
billion — another financial Iraq, basically — without any
compensating spending cuts, is only going to help reinforce the GOP’s
ongoing campaign to completely wreck the U.S. dollar, which has already
lost about a third of its value against other currencies since the
first hanging chads were examined.  I’m not saying that we shouldn’t
help the folks in need and rebuild — um, duh, obviously — just
pointing out that if we keep maxing out the national credit cards, one
of these days the phone’s gonna ring.

Also, this:

Well, obviously.  This must be the real reason Bush ate cake and played guitar while people were drowning.   He didn’t have enough power, he says.  He didn’t have enough power to order the military to intervene in domestic affairs.  So for the second time, he wants to use the tragic deaths of thousands to demand more power for himself.

Imagine for a moment that it was some guy running some other country who said this, more than once, in response to a devastating disaster.  What would you then see with your own eyes?

In a word: Eek.

… from last night’s speech, and worse than they fact that they turned on the power only for Bush’s appearance, throwing the city back into the dark as soon as he was done, were some of the details of the speech itself.

It
shouldn’t take a math whiz to see that cranking out a few hundred
billion — another financial Iraq, basically — without any
compensating spending cuts, is only going to help reinforce the GOP’s
ongoing campaign to completely wreck the U.S. dollar, which has already
lost about a third of its value against other currencies since the
first hanging chads were examined.  I’m not saying that we shouldn’t
help the folks in need and rebuild — um, duh, obviously — just
pointing out that if we keep maxing out the national credit cards, one
of these days the phone’s gonna ring.

Also, this:

Well, obviously.  This must be the real reason Bush ate cake and played guitar while people were drowning.   He didn’t have enough power, he says.  He didn’t have enough power to order the military to intervene in domestic affairs.  So for the second time, he wants to use the tragic deaths of thousands to demand more power for himself.

Imagine for a moment that it was some guy running some other country who said this, more than once, in response to a devastating disaster.  What would you then see with your own eyes?

In a word: Eek.

Over at A Tiny Revolution, Jon has not one but two good catches, the result of his being able (unlike most people who discuss politics) to read:

Turns out the CIA’s spokesman published a novel centered on the use of airplanes as terrorist missiles aimed at large public buildings, years in advance of the WTC attacks.

Also, it would be nice if any Bushies disparaging the "reality-based" were aware they were actually mirroring one of the fundamental worries of the intelligence community — about Stalinist Russia.

Enjoy.

Over at A Tiny Revolution, Jon has not one but two good catches, the result of his being able (unlike most people who discuss politics) to read:

Turns out the CIA’s spokesman published a novel centered on the use of airplanes as terrorist missiles aimed at large public buildings, years in advance of the WTC attacks.

Also, it would be nice if any Bushies disparaging the "reality-based" were aware they were actually mirroring one of the fundamental worries of the intelligence community — about Stalinist Russia.

Enjoy.