Katrina is the new Rove

* "And given the critical importance of this geographic region (nola et al) to the entire United States, the Bush administration could hardly have been more effective if they had planned a massive terrorist attack themselves." (link)

* re the foil-4-ood 'scandal', for some reason, the photo that the media is using of kojo annan is the one of him with a pretty white woman. ive seen it on just about every report. thats damn uppity.

* josh reckons that 'something happened' in the last 36 hours and that the media will now be allowed to have access to nola. small mercies.

* who wants to be mike brown? lying in his bio... lots of lies. (link)

* update - browns history is even worse that when it looked really bad. he virtually wasnt even a lawyer when he got the General Counsel position at fema (link)

* in an incredible cultural moment, atrios quotes The Office (the *real* version) when referring to mike brown - and he put up a photo of the assistant TO the manager. lol. i didnt know The Office was a hit in the US

* john documents an incredible exchange between pelosi and krya phillips of cnn - phillips is trying to debate pelosi, pelosi ends up saying "Kyra, if you want to make a case for the White House, you should go on their payroll."

* "Among those who identify themselves as ``conservative Republicans,'' Bush's job approval declined seven percentage points from the July survey and by 11 percentage points among those who describe themselves as ``moderate Republicans.''" (link)

* " A grand jury has indicted a political action committee formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and a Texas business group in connection with 2002 legislative campaign contributions... Neither DeLay nor any individuals with the business group has been charged with any wrongdoing." (link)

* amy goodman reported on the pelosi/blinky exchange - she was very funny quoting blinky - she pretended to be really dumb. (democracynow has been doing some great coverage, of course) (link)

* atrios: "New poll. 38% Approve, 58% disapprove of Bush's handling of Katrina.
There could be pictures of Bush with a goat, and 38% would approve, as long as it wasn't a gay goat."

* "There are automatic weapons and shotguns everywhere you look. It's a stance that perhaps would have been appropriate during the open lawlessness that has long since ended on most of these streets. Someone else points out on television as I post this: the fact that the National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to the very places where people last week were barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this awful chapter in American history." (link)

* idiot david brooks: "In those cultural zones (nola), many people dropped out of high school, so it seemed normal to drop out of high school. Many teenage girls had babies, so it seemed normal to become a teenage mother. It was hard for men to get stable jobs, so it was not abnormal for them to commit crimes and hop from one relationship to another." (link)
people who cant get jobs shag around a lot. apparently.

* yesterday i asked "will the (army) recruiters be running around the country trying to sign up the nola diaspora?" you wont be surprised to learn that "the U.S. military is conducting a Job Fair in the Astrodome in a blatant effort to exploit the despair of masses of Americans evacuated from the Gulf Coast. Once signed up, even if purportedly to reconstruct their region, they could easily find themselves deployed to Iraq" (link)

* wonkette (via gilliard): "To judge by today's White House briefing, Katrina is the new Rove: Correspondents jumped on Scott McClellan like he was a rescue copter, and poor bedraggled Scott tried valiantly to cling to his tatty talking points." (link)
lol. speaking of which, i remember that the white house press corp 'woke up' a few months ago - causing jon stewart to rub his eyes in disbelief - david gregory was particularly hostile to ari2. the only thing is, i cant remember which scandal it was that caused them to get all uppity. does anyone remember?