Olbermann took the gloves off tonight:
Politician after politician –” Republican and Democrat alike – has paraded before us, unwilling or unable to shut off the “I-Me” switch in their heads, condescendingly telling us about how moved they were or how devastated they were – congenitally incapable of telling the difference between the destruction of a city and the opening of a supermarket.(snip)[M]ost chillingly of all, this is the Law

3:32 pm today, says Ben Morris, Slidell Mayor: We are still hampered by some of the most stupid, idiotic regulations by FEMA. They have turned away generators, we’ve heard that they’ve gone around seizing equipment from our contractors. If they do so, they’d better be armed because I’ll be damned if I’m going to let [...]

The Three Stooges review a five-day-old weather map for the benefit of cameras. I guess Katrina was prettier then. Note African-American shoehorned into the picture, tail rotor of helicopter and all the bright, shiny colors. Suppose anyone was lamenting what they should’ve been doing five days earlier when Katrina was still out over the Gulf [...]