Our own Dear Leader

“Don’t buy gasoline if you don’t need it,” was one of the things President Bush suggested the rest of us could do to help the flood relief effort. His press conference today was even more idiotic than yesterday’s. Unbef***lievable.

I suspect he didn’t impress David Brooks, either, who this morning wrote about previous major floods in this country:

Civic arrangements work or they fail. Leaders are found worthy or wanting. What's happening in New Orleans and Mississippi today is a human tragedy. But take a close look at the people you see wandering, devastated, around New Orleans: they are predominantly black and poor. The political disturbances are still to come.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01brooks.html