The Bush Administration clearly has reached an important decision this weekend about the tragedy in New Orleans. Mind you, it was not how to handle disasters in the future or, better yet, prevent them by trying to undo decades of really stupid environmental policies. It was, rather, how to (try to) wave off press questions about how badly BushCo FUBAR'd this one.
One BushCo official after another, when on-camera today during the long series of Sunday interviews, has been adopting the same basic line of -- if you can call it this -- defense. It may show us how these guys handled FUBAR episodes when they were younger and had to answer to someone other than the American public.
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