NEEDLING

People smarter than myself speak: TonyPierce, Whiskey Bar always has some intelligent words to ad to the lot, his essay The Potemkin President hits a few nails right on the head, Anne Rice is pissed, thanks to Looka for the link, though I’d read her piece in the NYT earlier, the Holywriter tells us what he thinks, and Bob Herbert is very direct and right on in his op-ed which he starts with:

"Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of the president's failure of leadership last week. The catastrophe in New Orleans billowed up like the howling winds of hell and was carried live and in color on television screens across the U.S. and around the world.

The Big Easy had turned into the Big Hurt, and the colossal failure of George W. Bush to intervene powerfully and immediately to rescue tens of thousands of American citizens who were suffering horribly and dying in agony was there for all the world to see."