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If I were President, Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning at the latest, I would have been in New Orleans, with aid workers in my wake, water or no water. Vacation shmation. My Vice President and Secretaries of State, Treasury, Commerce, Defense, etc. would be hitting up all their friends in Industry and Commerce and Finance for beaucoups of charitable support. The military would have been mobilized at alarming, but justifiable cost.

Of course, I’d have a military to call out and a third of the equipment and the National Guard probably would not have been in Iraq.

And I hope I would have funded the flood prevention needs of the Delta, and considered one of our major ports a security necessity.

Given the number of oil and gas concerns that were shut down by Katrina, I’m surprised the Administration didn’t act more prophylactively. It speaks more to stupidity than cold-heartedness, but I’m guessing this disaster took a lot of both.

When the terrorists brought the World Trade Center towers down on 11 Sept four years ago, a lot of people supported the Administration and its president, saying Gore would not have responded as well. To that: B***S***.

To say that Gore or Kerry would have responded so late or so cold-heartedly or so WHITEly as this Admin or its president to the New Orleans disaster is unconscionable. The Administration and its president are not criminally liable or impeachable, but they should be. Tax cuts. Budget cuts. BS. Lives, human lives.