Thoughts on New Orleans

We are the Grasshoppers who lived without thought of the future, fed by the tax cuts of the season. "Now is the winter of our discontent..."

I grieve for the beautiful city of New Orleans and what will be lost of it. And the beautiful society, with its lovely folks, that will be hard-pressed to recover its grace and joy.

from this mornings NYTimes:

"seventy two hours into this, to be openly posturing about this, to be attacking the president, is not only despicable and wrong, it is not politically smart" said one White House official who asked not to be named because he did not want to be seen as talking about the crises in political terms.


I think it is a delicious irony that the Bushites' popularity goose may finally be cooked by such things as gas prices and Katrina relief failures (or poor planning)--things mostly beyond the scope of their decision-making--rather than such monstrosities as the Social Security campaign, and the Iraq invasion/occupation. Of course, it's the end, not the means, that counts. Only the outcome matters.

Right, Karl?

Of course, it's too early to declare victory. The Spin Machine is in active cycle. Anytime you hear the phrases "greatest disaster ever...never could have anticipated..." etc., you know you are getting the official story.