Stalin lays out the truth on Katrina

Probably the best coverage on the complete failure of the ancien régime in Nouvelle Orléans and elsewhere is on AmericaBlog.

Right-wingers claim Louisiana never requested federal assistance. Wrong. The request can be accessed here.

Right-wingers claim nobody could have had any idea the storm could be that bad. Wrong. Read the forecast from the National Weather Service here.

Probably because they were so clueless, the White House pre-emptively declared a state of emergency on Sunday. Bush remained on vacation - fundraising in California, yeehawing in Arizona - until Wednesday afternoon.

Pathetic right-wingers claim that mayors and governors (Anybody but Bush, in fact) are responsible for dealing with natural disasters. Well, not according to FEMA.

Bush's visit to New York after 9/11 halted rescue efforts at ground zero for twelve hours. Now, he shut down food delivery in New Orleans.

You can read CNN's comparison of what Bush peons said, and what actually happened, here.

Video of Geraldo Rivera screaming at (subhuman, pro-Bush filth) Sean Hannity while holding a starving child is here.

Condi Rice exiting 'Spamalot' in evening dress on Wednesday is here. In evening dress. On Wednesday. Spamalot.

The New York Times calling Bush 'careless to the point of callousness' is here.

Editor and Publisher follows up with a piece titld 'My Pet Goat, the Sequel'.

The mayor of New Orleans berating those responsible for this catastrophe is linked here.

You may have seen heroic video of Bush watching levees being repaired. Sorry, it was fake. A photo-op. 'Mission Accomplished' all over again.

Bush and those who worship him claim nobody could have ever known that those levees would break. Well, nobody except the mayor of New Orleans on Sunday, the local newspaper in a five-part, Pulitzer Prize winning series on the subject published last year, or the Army Corps of Engineers for the last few years, that is.

And now, what is Dear Leader's concern? Those poor people he previously abandoned to the elements? Or his own political fortune? Hint: all the people who guided his little press conference on Saturday were on vacation when the actual disaster hit, and stayed there for a few days. Hurricanes and death in the streets obviously don't interest them nearly as much as collapsing poll numbers.

A clue to Dear Leader's intentions might perhaps be gleaned from this WaPo article laying out the WH effort to shift blame downward to the state and local level.

I don't remember ever being this angry before. Ever. And after five years of Bush, that's a pretty strong statement.