President Al Gore

Here's what Al Gore, PRIVATE CITIZEN, unfortunately, managed to do while President Eternal Vacation dithered. Imagine if Al had had the power of the federal of government at his disposal. As the Supreme Court decided the 2000 election, not the voters, that's the legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor: She gave us the Smirking Chimp and thousands of dead on the Gulf Coast.

From AP:

Gore helps airlift New Orleans victims

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.

Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew last Saturday and Sunday.

However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: "Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has."