(crossposted at Emphasis Added.)
This morning, David Broder, "dean" of the Washington punditocracy, wrote:
It took almost no time for President Bush to put his stamp on the national response to the tragedy that has befallen New Orleans and the Gulf Coast... It makes the previous signs of political weakness for Bush, measured in record-low job approval ratings, instantly irrelevant and opens new opportunities for him to regain his standing with the public.
Is there any act of malfeasance, cowardice or mendacity that Broder and his ilk won't look upon as an "opportunity" for Bush to reverse his unbroken lifelong record of abject, inveterate failure? Is there any limit to the amount of delusory wishful thinking, any end to the river of indulgence extended to this trainwreck of an Administration, any fact under the sun that will break the spell of infantile happy talk that has displaced constructive, rational analysis in our public discourse?
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