Bush's buck

So now Bush's fan clubs are having a fit because lots of people are indicting him for negligence in the face of Hurricane Katrina. But he is the commander-in-chief (though apparently one who does not watch much TV news, at least in the last week), and there is nowhere else the buck should stop.

Not an operational brain in the world could see all those gruesome New Orleans pictures on TV and not ask how this could be happening in the richest and most powerful country in the world. How mostly white folks with cars could quickly drive away from danger while tens of thousands of mostly black folks would have to sit in arenas or attics or on rooftops for days with not a rescue bus or boat in sight. The Coast Guard helicopter crews working around the clock must have wondered where on earth the federal reinforcements were.

To maintain his occupation, Bush presently has 118,000 Guardsmen in Iraq. 6,000 of these are from Louisiana and Mississippi. Imagine what a difference even the 6,000 could have made in New Orleans from Monday through Thursday.

The next Gallup report on Bush's approval rate should be very interesting indeed.