Here's Why George W. Bush Ran As A “Compassionate Conservative” (Updated)
"How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane."--- Newt Gingrich, at last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference
And/But of course, as Harry Shearer points out, the folks in the Ninth Ward weren't caught by a hurricane. They were surprised (at 5:30 in the morning) by an eighteen-foot-high wall of water caused by the collapse of their federally-built, flood-protection levee.
UPDATE: And, although I've resisted writing about her, let's not forget that the other really great ovation at CPAC was reserved for that other party favorite, Ann Coulter.
(HT to Hullabaloo)
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