Listen, take no solace in current poll numbers. Half this country voted for Dubya. The GOP has their Spin Machine and every branch of the Federal Government. This administration will rise again. Though the horrific images of unimaginable suffering have troubled our national psyche, there will still be more water cooler conversations today about Britney's baby than about what the President may say tonight. Karl and Co. know that score.
Tonight he'll lie, deny, spread the blame and cop to the lesser charge of having trusted people who failed the "good folks of the Gulf coast".
Friends, take a moment to visit the website
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu. Check out the speeches on Iran Contra. Ronald Reagan was as stage managed as Bush is and this is the playbook. Bush will be found to have been "Out of the Loop". He is going to say we have to put this behind us, lots of hard work, blah, blah blah. Just enough of an apology to give Bush loyalists political cover, just enough speculation to give right wing pundits their talking points, just enough compassion to lull the country back into its collective coma of self absorbed indifference.
And it will still be too little, too late for our nation. Cry, the Beloved Country - Grover Nordquist had it wrong. Your federal government wasn't drowned in a bathtub, it was lost in the fetid waters of New Orleans.