Here's a link to this weekend's New York Times column by Frank Rich. It's pretty brutal with its assessment of George W. Bush's new disaster relief stylings but like a majority of Americans, I think those efforts deserve a lot of condemnation. In fact, one might suspect that very little of what is being done for the victims would be done if not for the massive outcry that the Bush administration had dropped the ball on dealing with the disaster.
For some reason, I keep getting e-mails from some pro-Bush group that act like the charge against the administration is that George W. Bush somehow caused the hurricane. That's so boneheaded stupid that I have to believe they know that no one's charging that. It's an old and pretty lame debate trick: Instead of responding to what the other side said, when you can't, rebut something they didn't say, which you can. Maybe you can confuse enough people into confusing the two.
Starting tomorrow, the Times erects its subscription wall for some areas and starts charging to read its op-ed columnists like Frank Rich. I have a hunch this will fail and that the columns will be readily available for free on other websites. But we shall see, we shall see.