It's hard to say what's worse: The incompetence of the administration's initial hurricane response or the cowardice of its follow-up....
His promises of racial healing are entirely cynical....
What Bush really believes is that government is ineffective....
The complacency begins with the appalling state of federal staffing. It's not just that the hapless former boss of the Federal Emergency Management Agency knew more about horses than floods. It's that the government agencies that must now manage relief are missing senior officials....seven of the top positions at the Department of Housing and Urban Development stand vacant....
The federal government needs to be returned to an earlier era, when more executive-branch positions went to career civil servants who didn't need to be confirmed and didn't owe their jobs to college roommates. Bush hasn't even raised this issue....
Now if we can just get it through Mallaby's head that Bush used 9/11 to promote the crazed neo-con plans.
If Bush used this moment as he used the aftermath of Sept. 11, some of this spending could be forgiven. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon exposed the nation's complacency about terrorism; Bush stepped forward and changed that.... After the terrorist attacks of 2001, Bush rose to the challenge -- perhaps rather too vigorously.
Do you understand now why we are in Iraq? Which had nothing to do with 9/11? If you get to that point, Mr. Mallaby, we will give you an "A". For now you are stuck at "B-".
But that's big step up, because until Katrina the MSM was holding steady at "F."
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