Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Back in the days when President
George W. Bush preferred his endless summer at the ranch to
storm chasing, few mistakes stuck to him. He was like the guy
who drove through the car wash with his top down but never got
wet.
No weapons of mass destruction in a country we're stuck in?
Well, you must understand, he really thought they were there. At
this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Bush
showed a video of himself pretending to look for the weapons
under his desk.
Oh what a difference a hurricane makes. Katrina exposed
something we couldn't know before: Bush's claim that he would
keep us safer than that wishy-washy senator from squishy
Massachusetts is false. Not only are we not safer than we were
before Bush took office, we're worse off.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as its Katrina
response made tragically clear, is a mess. The Department of
Homeland Security, which Bush built from scratch, is mainly
known for a color chart, wasteful spending, a mixed bag of
airport screeners and a new chief who didn't know the New
Orleans Superdome was filled with starving, homeless hurricane
victims."