I was reading an erlier diary about CNN's (i.e., the White House's) latest smear campaign angainst Louisian Governor Blanco. I suggest the governor take a page from the Karl Rove playbook -- attack the enemy's strength. In this case, it's also a page from the Bill Clinton playbook of always fighting back when attacked; never let the enemy have the last word.
At any rate, I think Governor Blanco should begin to assert repeatedly that at the time Katrina hit, the Bush Administration was "three sheets to the wind." Then tick off the evidence:
1) You have the obvious case of Bush cutting his
5 week vacation
2 days short, but not before he can share birthday cake with Jon McCain and strum a presidential-sealed guitar.
2) You have Cheney likewise in the wind -- nobody knows where he was, some report Wyoming.
3) You have Condi on Broadway, shoe shopping and noshing on corned beef.
4) You have Rumsfeld also attending political functions.
5) You have "Brownie" doing his best, which as we've seen, wasn't very much.
6) You have the widely-reported story that most of the White House second-level staff was attending a wedding in Europe, so the place was closed, for all intents and purposes.
It's not far-fetched to assert that the administration was, during this time, both literally and figuratively, "three sheets to the wind".
If anyone here has a connectiosn to the Blanco camp, I suggest that they trot this "three sheets to the wind" notion out and hit back for all she's worth.