It was Monday morning. We all got to the office, I before 0700, and got started lining up things for the morning routine.

The top subject of the conversation was Hurricane Katrina. She’d slammed into the Gulf Coast at the connection between Louisiana and Mississippi in the night. We’d gotten only an increase in breeze out of the deal.

Laptops were fired up on various desks as we looked at the news. The original reports were that New Orleans had once again dodged a bullet. Initial new videos showed the citizenry leaving their houses and looking at minor wind damage.

I figured that scene would presage multiple news conferences from our governess, “Crying Kathleen” Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray “Where’s mah mf’in’ buses” Nagin as they ascribed the city’s miraculous survival to their superior planning skillz and the ongoing success of dimmocrat administrations in New Orleans. You cannot convince me that those news conferences would NOT have been held. They might have been ignored, but they would have been held.

Then the first reports came in that there were levee breaches.

The rest, as the saying goes, is history. Twisted, distorted, colored, lied about, but history.

The dimmocrats had been looking long for another hammer with which to beat George Bush, and it had just blown in off the Gulf of Mexico.

It mattered not that New Orleans had ignored its own published emergency plans. It mattered not that federal law prohibited the engagement of the armed forces until a request had come from a state governor and that our governess was circling the drain like a turd in a toilet bowl. It didn’t matter that the majority of the people left in New Orleans wouldn’t move out of the way of an on-coming train without a government check and a free ride.

It was George Bush’s fault.

FEMA? That’s the feddle gummint. You see how well FEMA worked? They tried. Through red tape and their own regulations and using real human beings with the standard set of shortcomings and foibles, FEMA tried. But they’re the federal government. Yeah, the same bunch that Obama and the Left want to run your health care.

If you want some contemporary commentary from MY perspective, then browse my archives over there on the sidebar.

Now you’d think that with the spotlight on New Orleans, the place would have starting toeing the line. You’d be wrong. The city government is STILL a morass of graft and incompetence. The city police department is STILL unable to get a handle on the highest murder rate in the nation. Any work done there is STILL tied up in a bureaucratic nightmare. Well, it’s a nightmare if you’re trying to get work done. for the city government, it’s a paradise of lifetime POSITIONS, a substantial salary and all you can steal.

Hurricane Katrina did break up a big dimmocrat voting bloc as the denizens of the hives of the Ninth Ward and other enclaves were dispersed to the four winds. The Louisiana Dimmocrat Party cried real tears, not over all the lives disrupted by the evacuation, but the fact that no longer would they be able to run schoolbuses into the Ninth Ward to put their pets in office, such luminaries as “Katrina Mary” Landrieu and “Crying Kathleen” Blanco.

Katrina kicked over the rotting log in New Orleans and showed the world what many of us already knew, that every large city has a rotten core that is kept alive on government subsidies, and that the removal of the civilizing influences of a police department will have that population break completely down in 24 hours. We already knew about “gratitude” in those places. The rest of the country got to see that gratitude ended the day after that last government check was cashed.

And now we have that same “Katrina” mentality in the highest offices in the nation.