Don't you love how Bush said, "I hope people won't play partisan politics at this time" while posing for photo-ops in Biloxi, as if that wasn't playing politics to the hilt.
Now comes word that Karl Rove and his communications team are hard at work trying to shift the blame to local politicians, who are of course Democrats. No reacting to media criticism, just turn the discussion to what is being done now. Neatly side-stepping Condolezza's shoe shopping while Rome burns and the fact that the Homeland Security department was created to handle national emergencies of this very nature. If this week's poor showing was the best U.S. forces could do for a storm they had days of advance warning about, how can anyone believe we are ready for a biological terrorist attack? And meanwhile the head of FEMA (a department gutted of its financing by our president in favor of $300 tax cuts) is a college cronie of Bush's, a former horse breeder with virtually NO experience in emergency planning!