Mark Knows It All

There isn't anyone in the entire country who could have watched the suffering along the gulf coast without wondering why our government didn't respond sooner than it did. The good news is that once it responded, it did so magnificently. The bad news is that people died during the 24 hour delay. There is plenty of blame to go around between the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans, a total zero; the Democrat Governor of Louisiana, clueless; and Republican George Bush, who, for reasons known only to him and God, flew to California for a fund raiser and speech on Iraq while New Orleans drowned. Much has been written about the failure of the government to build the levees so that they could have withstood the storm. In the blame game, that discussion will probably not be as intense as the one surrounding the 24 hour delay, but will figure prominently in the debate over how to rebuild New Orleans. Adjectives I have heard on the issue so far are short sightedness, cheapness, pork spending, ...