What I Buy, What I Don't

Obviously, there has been huge amounts of speculation over NOLA. I mean, how does any organization, let alone a huge mass of them, all manage to fail at once and all manage to fail this spectacularly. I mean, I think we'd all admit this isn't bad: this is Herculean, Rube Goldberg-duz-Michael Jackson-duz-Keystone Kops horrific.

Some of the speculation has is that the Bushies deliberately hung Blanco, Landrieu and other dems out to dry by deliberately withholding any aid. As stories of the horror began to leak out, reporters were threatened and they tried to toss all reporters out of the city citing "martial law".

The press thing is typical Bush. They feel they own the press, and because the press today largely is mega-corps, they do to some degree.

But instead, here's what I believe: Bush has been destroying things right and left: public education, health care, Social Security, jobs and job security, the economy. This failure was at least in part deliberate, and done to assure people of the Grover Norquist philosophy that you can't trust government. The Bushies were just lucky - and knew from a very recent report which sat at the top of dozens and dozens of others - that NOLA was especially susceptible and, filled with poor, powerless blacks so Bushies felt they could make an example of how government does not work without taking the heat they would elsewhere.