Playing politics with human suffereing, business as usual in the white house.
Master of the Poison PillSo it's not as if Rove lacks experience in manipulating national catastrophes for the narrowest of political ends. The administration is clearly going back to Congress to seek more than $100 billion in additional appropriations for the reconstruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, and Rove is certainly up to the task of crafting some poison-pill provisions that would make it difficult for Democrats to vote yes.