Memo From Karl Rove To Bush Supporters in the Media:
Congratulations on salvaging what we could of the President’s reputation after Katrina. If the media hadn’t focused on the New Orlean’s evacuation plan, and examined Homeland Security’s National Response Plan instead, we would have been in real trouble. If the public knew about the President’s order of 2003 that gave Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff the power and responsibility to respond to disaster by ordering any federal agencies into action, without any request from local or state officials… let’s just say it would have been very awkward. Thanks to you, they didn’t.
So what’s next? From now on no matter what the question, the answer is, “Because the Mayor of New Orleans didn’t use the school buses.” Example:
Why did we lie our way into a war in Iraq? “Because the Mayor of New Orleans didn’t use the school buses.”

Raising taxes essentially means raising taxes on the rich guys. The poor don't earn enough to pay federal income tax. However, the rich guys are the Bush guys--and he wouldn't want to alienate them. W is so transparent.

>>...unimportant stuff like special education, food stamps, roads, unemployment, environmental and tax enforcement, and those other nasty "entitlements"...>>

What a weird bunch of items! You know... this sounds like something Wyden left in his other jacket pocket after his swing through the senior centers during the Clinton election heydays.
If only we had that other guy...he had a plan for this. He always told us, "I've got a plan for this, you can look it up on my web site."

What the blazes, why not borrow more. We are so upside-down with China we will likely never bail out. Just charge it and keep the party rolling.

Nah, Just take it from the Corps of Engineers flood control budget.

What a weird bunch of items!

Yes. No hatred or killing. Only helping ordinary people live better lives. How weird. Just ask Barbara Bush.

My post-speech thought about rebuilding New Orleans using Bush's no-tax scheme: "what a quaint and sentimental notion + not on my dime."

And that's the issue - regardless of fault of blame - who's going to pay for it? Straight up have Haliburton rebuild NOLA as the Las Vegas of the South, or respond lazily and siphon off a majority via migration, disseminating the cost onto the shoulders of families and distant communities?

Oh very crafty to flip me! See Doonesbury today. Pegs the SOB.

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/

Not only will the administration avoid raising taxes to pay for rebuilding the storm ravaged region, but will also continue advocating elimination of the estate tax so the burden will remain on the middle/lower income working classes who can expect fewer federal benefits.
Meanwhile, seniors on social security have seen a 30.9% increase in medicare premiums the last two years and can expect an additional 13.2% increase in the coming year. Thus, their fixed income (social security) will be reduced in direct proportion to the premium increase.
Sacrifice seems to apply only to all but the wealthy in this nation. You go Paris Hilton, and all those born with silver spoons. This administration will seek to make them golden. Harumph!

As soon as the oil industry is back up and running to full capacity, Ira- I mean New Orleans could really rebuild on a self-sustaining basis. I mean, the profit opportunities will more than cover the cost of reconstruction...