(First diary!)
The perfect counter to the spam arrives
Josh Marshall hilights a Knight-Ridder report. It seems that not only did Blanco declare a state of emergency in a timely fashion -- in direct refutation to the winger spam going around -- but Chertoff failed to do the equivalent at the federal level until roughly two days too late.
So, next time your father/aunt/brother-in-law/co-worker sends you that "blame the democrats" spam that's been going around, you can not only refute it with the report that came out yesterday, but you can trump it with Chertoff's incompetence.
Let's make this a point -- every time a winger wants to project incompetence and blame others, hit 'em with this cudgel. Shame them with the facts. Don't be polite about it. Tell them to their face they've got their trust and blame 180 degrees reversed.