Huricane Steyn hits the Press
I’ll leave it to future generations of historians to settle the precise moment at which Hurricane Katrina finally completed its transformation into a Kansas-type twister, and swept up the massed ranks of the world’s press to deposit them on the wilder shores of the Land of Oz. But for a couple of weeks now they’ve been there frolicking and gambolling as happy Media Munchkins, singing and dancing “Ding Dong, The Bush Is Dead”.
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Steyn argues that at the national level Katrina will have exactly zero consequences for the 2006 or 2008 elections. I am inclined to think this is too soon to say, but that’s why Steyn makes the big pundit bucks.
However, as the mayor of New Orleans has just bought a house in Dallas and the evidence mounts that the actual plan for evacuating New Orleans was simply ignored by the mayor and his cronies, there is a sense that the get Bush frenzy of the last two weeks is abating along with the water. Which sets the stage for Bush to recover - or not.
The question is not really Bush’s standing; rather it is the standing of the professional political class in America which has proven itself monterously incompetent at every level. For the people on the ground who are actually dealing with the hour by hour refugee and recovery operation the rush to blame may suggest a pox on all their houses.
Written by jay on September 14th, 2005 with
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