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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Fuck the people...what's important is Bush's reputation
Posted by Jill | 4:54 PM

That's the way this White House works. It couldn't give a rat's ass about the people made homeless by the flood in New Orleans last week -- except that it's affecting the polls.

Froomkin:

This campaign is to salvage Bush's reputation.

Like previous Rove operations, it calls for multiple appearances by the president in controlled environments in which he can appear leader-like. It calls for extensive use of Air Force One and a massive deployment of spinners.

It doesn't necessarily include any change in policy. It certainly doesn't include any admission of error.

It utilizes the classic Rovian tactic of attacking critics rather than defending against their criticism -- and of throwing up chaff to muddle the issue and throw the press off the scent.

It calls for public expressions of outrage over the politicization of the issue and of those who would play the "blame game." While at the same time, it is utterly political in nature and heavily reliant on shifting the blame elsewhere.


Doesn't it bother Bush's worshippers that this White House is willing to put heavy artillery behind spin and image, but absolutely none behind helping people made homeless and ill by a natural disaster -- until it starts making them look bad?
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