It has been just one disgusting day as the Company tries both hard and soft spin to get the spreading stain of Lake George off its hands.
Since a lot of these links were summarized well today at Eschaton and Corrente and other places, let me start off with a generalized kudos to these sites and their supporting casts.
Dear Leader started it off today with the amazing statement that "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." This is a pretty baldfaced lie, as noted, quoted, and referenced in heavy detail. Thank Matthew Yglesias for that last one. Leah A. at Corrente has a long rant about this, too, referencing a Bill Moyers NOW episode outlining the entire problem and the likely results if not attended to... in 2002.
Babies dying while Chertoff blames the victims for not gassing up the SUVs and getting out of town. I guess he thinks all good people are part of the Ownership Society. Even those who owned a ticket out but were stranded by a sudden cancellation of all air and land transportation.
The guy heading FEMA, Michael D. Brown, was an estate planning lawyer before Bush hired him to manage our emergencies.
And FEMA is telling people to give donations to Pat Robertson instead of organizations that might actually do some good.
Still to come in these pages over the long weekend ahead: more about the causes and effects of global warming, and why legitimate scientists might think that if we crank through all that fossil fuel left in the ground we might start to look like this in a hundred years or so.
Just so long as somebody tells Dear Leader.
I wouldn't want it to surprise him.
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