Posted 6:26 AM by Gene

Conservative commentators have had a high old time pointing at the city of New Orleans's government's bumbling performance during the Katrina catastrophe. Mark Steyn, in describing the city's black population as being a "wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic party," might as well have described every institution in Louisiana. Rush Limbaugh has said, many times, many ways, "This is what you get with decades of liberal rule."

And here, alas, is the problem: a hurricane is a force of nature, and nature has a way of sweeping mere mortals off the boards. But after the death and destruction, a few rotted pillars will stand, and having survived the force of nature will pronounce themselves more fit than before. We like Mark Steyn, though he occasionally shades into glibness; but we wonder if a man who's abused prescription drugs should pass judgment on the morality of "decades of liberal rule"; and we'd guess in Lousiana the problem wasn't liberalism, it was GRAFT.

And GRAFT being BI-PARTISAN, and some of history's most famous CROOKS being REPUBLICANS, we can understand why ERUCTERS like RUSH would want to make it a ONE-PARTY THING.

But what does RUSH know? He thought SNIDELY WHIPLASH was being SARCASTIC. (Although with a ZILLIONAIRE ELITIST like RUSH we COULD guess he was pulling a fast one.)