Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Remember when Bush proclaimed Karl Rove was put in charge of the Gulf Coast Reconstruction:

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.

Looks like he got fired from that job:

WASHINGTON – Donald Powell, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., has been assigned to oversee the federal government's disaster recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration announced Tuesday.

Powell, 64, a wealthy contributor to President Bush's presidential campaign, will be in charge of the long-term plans to rebuild the states hit by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the late summer. The sluggish federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the first and most damaging of the two, particularly has been widely criticized.

Powell is a Bush crony, one of his "Pioneers" who raised more than $100,ooo for Bush-Cheney '04. He's a rich banker, but qualifications in reconstruction? Nah. But hey. At least he's not a horse lawyer.