Continuing in his great tradition of being the only one to have the cahunas to say in plain english what needs to be said, Keith Olbermann had a few important words to say about the New Orleans situation — and Bush’s utter failure in dealing with it.

But, nationally, these are leaders who won re-election last year largely
by portraying their opponents as incapable of keeping the country safe.
These are leaders who regularly pressure the news media in this country
to report the reopening of a school or a power station in Iraq, and
defies its citizens not to stand up and cheer. Yet they couldn’t even
keep one school or power station from being devastated by infrastructure
collapse in New Orleans even though the government had heard all the
“chatter” from the scientists and city planners and hurricane centers
and some group whose purposes the government couldn’t quite discern…
a group called The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
And most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror
government. It promised protection or at least amelioration against
all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological.
It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological
weapon called standing water.

Here is the full text of the article in case the link goes bad:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8514671/#050905a
September 5, 2005 | 8:58 p.m. ET
The “city” of Louisiana (Keith Olbermann)
SECAUCUS Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said it all,
starting his news briefing Saturday afternoon: “Louisiana is a city
that is largely underwater…”
Well there’s your problem right there.
If ever a slip-of-the-tongue defined a government’s response to a
crisis, this was it.
The seeming definition of our time and our leaders had been their
insistence on slashing federal budgets for projects that might