Politics As Usual

From this morning's New York Times:

Top of story: President Bush's top two political advisers, Karl Rove and Dan Bartlett, are orchestrating a campaign from inside the White House to shift blame for the slow relief effort to Louisiana state officials.

Further down: "One Republican with knowledge of the effort said that Mr. Rove had told administration officials . . . that the administration should not appear to be seen now as being blatantly political."

Comment: Dante could not imagine a circle of hell deep enough to deserve these people.