While it's nice to see the truth FINALLY coming out re: the Bush administration's stumblebum response to Hurricane Katrina and the flood...including the fact that idiot Shrub managed to lose a two page letter delivered to him personally from then-governor Blanco...I can only agree in part with Alexander's conclusion about the federal government taking the well-deserved blame.
The myth, if not set in stone, is certainly set in the minds of a lot of people--and at this point trying to explain the facts is almost an exercise in futility. And don't doubt for a millisecond that Rove knew this quite well when his spread his vicious lies, and, when they became so threadbare that even a Republican could see through them, spewed forth lines like "government failed at all levels" and "now's not the time to look for someone to blame," etc. etc.
But while lies themselves are easy to refute, the myths they help generate stubbornly refuse to surrender to facts. And that's one reason why it was so maddeningly frustrating to witness the grimmest of shows, where a cowed media fell hook, line, sinker, rod and reel for Bush administration nonsense...nonsense that's managed to embed itself in popular culture to the extent that I fear NO amount of factual analysis will ever turn it around.
Damn.
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