Saturday, after an explanation of the joke behind a question regarding Hurricane Katrina’s devastation and the slow response to it, somebody on Wait Wait — Don’t Tell Me! (probably Mo Rocca) said: The Bush Administration doesn’t do aftermaths.
I’m not one to lawyer-bash, especially since my two lawyer-cousins would take me to task about it, but in light of this paralysis, maybe we shouldn’t hire lawyers (Chertoff and Brown) to run the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA? For days, Bush’s top advisers argued over legal niceties about who was in charge, according …
For a slightly more sensitive pundit than Tim Russert was on MTP, try Bob Schieffer (pdf) on “CBS News’ Face the Nation” Sunday: SCHIEFFER: Finally, a personal thought. We have come through what may have been one of the worst weeks in America’s history, a week in which government at every level failed the people …