Oh, Powerline, can't your guys write ANYTHING without happily ripping off your human values and dignity faster than bush can say "I understand..."?
Now that the federal response has ramped up and is producing results, there's a good chance that the public will come to view it, and the president, more favorably.
The right is busily engaged in damage control - NO, not flood damage control - not saving American Citizens (the young, the weak, the poor and the elderly) from death and disease damage control - but the ALL IMPORTANT IMAGE damage control.
We knew this was coming, and from the expected Clinton-blaming, and the Democrat-bashing, to the finally out in the open "Welfare Nigger"-bashing. The shocking thing is - this comes from family and friends...
more on the flip...
The "WE must protect THE PRESIDENT" at all costs mantra is getting tiresome, but you have to say that they don't give up so easily:
The limits of MSM carping
Glenn Reynolds cites an ABC News poll which...suggest that people get the fact that the local response was worse than the federal one; that (as is almost always the case when a bureaucracy must face a massive crisis) the initial federal response left something to be desired; and that Bush isn't to blame.
Ahh, I understand - it's "The Bureaucracy's" fault!!! Definitely NOT the man who installed the leaders (ahem) of that bureaucracy. So what happen next, all knowing Power-limp dudes?
Now that the federal response has ramped up and is producing results, there's a good chance that the public will come to view it, and the president, more favorably. Of course, the left and the MSM will be looking for new things to second guess and individual tragedies to exploit, but (in the words of the ABC story) the American public is inclined to be more hopeful than discontented. Come to think of it, that's a pretty good explanation for the problems the left and the MSM face.
You know what guys, you're right! We need to turn these frowns upside down! Who would have thought that the republicans are the "feel-good" guys in this? And I was all angwy and murderwy seeing how fellow Americans were left to rot...
That makes me see this picture in a whole different light!
Now I can see the good news in it! Thanks, Power-Guys!