In response to the escalating disaster in New Orleans, the White House proves unable even to co-ordinate its own spokespeople.
The Bush administration, struggling to master the chaos of New Orleans, seems to have a logistical problem closer to home: getting the White House on the same page with the Homeland Security Department.
But really, we shouldn’t be surprised. P.J. O’Rouke, nobody’s idea of a liberal, warned us:
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then gets elected and proves it.
[from Holidays in Hell. l989, London (Picador), 270-271]
Kit Stolz 