Mission Demolished

Today the Muse posits the theory that Katina was the better-late-than-never tipping point in the Bush presidency.

While he's slipped out of mess after mess, this one feels different--and the polls are worse than Monica-bad.

The stars are aligned against him more than ever and one more blow (Rove indicted, Iraq constitution rejected, another horrific hurricane response, domestic act of terrorism] could be the start of another 1994. Thoughts?

Mission Demolished

The President stepped onto the deck of the Iwo Jima Sunday with considerably less fanfare than was deployed for his made-for-TV boarding of the Abraham Lincoln in `03. And this time he left the flyboy getup hanging in the costume department.

But one thing that was not left hanging this time was a "Mission Accomplished" banner. Nor was this boat floating in picturesque San Diego Harbor. The Iwo Jima is docked along the Mississippi, just a few hundred yards from a city shattered by a gal named Katrina who may well have also laid waste to what's left of the Bush presidency.

Bush didn't accomplish the mission in Iraq and he downright demolished the one that involved organizing a federal response to Katrina. It was his third trip to New Orleans since the storm, no doubt to assuage a conscience distressed by how his administration so belatedly figured out that this one was of the Biblical variety.

It did not help that the FEMA director Bush told the world was doing a "heck of a job" had just handed in a heck of a resignation and, for once, a clear majority of Americans are angered over another muffed mission....

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