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Don't Bother Sendin' A History Book 'Cuz I Can't Read

Anybody wondering whether certain GOP incumbents are concerned with the anchor-like effect of a completely policy-incompetent Administration in the November election need wonder no further:

House Republicans plan to issue a blistering report on Wednesday that says the Bush administration delayed the evacuation of thousands of New Orleans residents by failing to act quickly on early reports that the levees had broken during Hurricane Katrina. A draft of the report, to be issued by an 11-member, all-Republican committee, says the Bush administration was informed on the day Hurricane Katrina hit that the levees had been breached, even though the president and other top administration officials earlier said that they had learned of the breach the next day.

That delay was significant, the report says, rejecting the defense given by the White House and the Department of Homeland Security that the time it took to recognize the breach did not significantly affect the response.

As the draft report points out, the federal response to something that was in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico for two weeks (and a major hurricane for one week) does not bode well for man-made disasters that may have two minutes of warning.

The palpable disillusionment comes from the fact that the report is being released on Wednesday, rather than the usual Friday afternoon graveyard for bad news. The fact that there's two more reports forthcoming, both by entities presumably more hostile than House Republicans, doesn't bode well either. But at least there's some effective push-back:

A White House spokesman said that President Bush was now focused on the future, not the past.

I'm not sure why somebody would be focusing or looking forward to an all-out civil war in Iraq, a national debt hitting $10 trillion, worldwide condemnation of our torture camp network (sorry, that's the past now), the loss of one or both Congressional chambers in 2006, and lower approval ratings than Jimmy Carter at the height of national malaises. But then again, I'm not equal parts patrician mama's boy twit and mean, dry-drunk hick.

UPDATE: John Goodman to be placed in charge of Louie Anderson diet plan.

UPDATE II: OK, nothing to do with the previous post, but since everybody's weighing in, here's a lone Red Meat comic on the Vice-President.

UPDATE II(a): If the Vice President were Meatwad and the gunshot victim was Santa...

Meatwad: Look. What am I supposed to do here with this? I know. You were asleep. He broke in. (Tips over Santa's life support) He flicked a switch; bad wiring lights him on fire.

Frylock: Meatwad!

Santa: Don't listen to him!

Meatwad: No one knows he's down here, come on!

Posted by Norbizness at February 13, 2006 08:42 AM