I’m absolutely heartsick at the never-ending stream of ghastly news and pictures from New Orleans. All I can do is echo Andrew Sullivan:
I have no confidence in this administration to deal with the kind of calamities that 9/11 proved we may have to deal with. After four years, they are still incompetent, unprepared, unable to have made the real changes that we need to have made. In the case of New Orleans, criminally negligent. People have died because of their inability to plan, to spend wisely, to set real priorities, to respond quickly. That goes for New Orleans. And it also applies to Iraq.
Update: Finally.
