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So there I was on the treadmill (doesn't seem to be working) trying to get a little exercise and watching TV, when all of a sudden up comes Dubya for his weekly radio address. It really struck me listening to this 707 word piece of literary pablum that Bush is losing any of the leadership abilities he had. The tone was flat, the text was simply list of things the "federal government" was going to do for the "American people", the assets in place and basically a list of things to prevent anyone from accusing them (this time) from being lax.

Where is the empathy! There was not one mention of the trouble and heartache that the evacuees faced sitting in 100 mile car backups and their struggle to get out. I'm not suggesting that he point out all of those difficulties, simply that he express some modicum of understanding and empathy for the trials and tribulations all those folks just are going through. That would be a sign of a true leader. Yes yes silly thought I know.

I just new Rita was going to be a big problem as soon as I heard of it. Rita and Katrina rhyme too well.

All kidding aside let's hope all the "officials" in charge get it right this time. Looks like the new Hurricane cycle of increased activity is going to give them lots of opportunity to practice.

Let's all thing positive now!

According to the NY Times, "President Bush has named Frances Fragos Townsend, his domestic security adviser, to lead an internal White House inquiry into the administration's performance in handling Hurricane Katrina, Scott McClellan, Mr. Bush's spokesman, said Monday"

To be clear Ms Townsend is Bush's advisor on homeland security, and she is going to investigate the failures in the response to Katrina, makes sense, right? I have it on good authority that this is actually an effort by Bush to win favor with the Emmy winning Daily Show on Comedy Central.

The material just writes itself!