The right wing bloggers are running with claims by the Red Cross that state officials kept them from going in too soon. The geniuses at Powerline conclude:The Democrats may need to re-think their calls for an investigation.
See, that's the difference between us and them. They put their party above the country, and would rather stifle a real investigation than be forced to shoulder any blame.
We say, "investigate away", and let the chips fall where they may. If any Democrats share the blame, then so be it. We need to know what went wrong, who f'd up, and how we can prevent this sort of thing from happening again. If Blanco or another Democrats gets fingered in this epic screwup, that's okay.
Equal opportunity bloodthirst for inept politicians. That's what I like to see. I don't know who will be the heroes and villians when all is said and done on Katrina (well, I'm pretty confident about where Michael Brown will fall, but the rest are still open questions), and I don't care. It could be the entire Democratic establishment in Louisiana, and I still would say they should be strung up and flayed alive. The folks who screwed up, NEED to be held accountable. That's bipartisan bloodletting.
I agree that Kos's sentiment is correct. But I also think it's a very easy one for him to hold. For one thing, he seems quite confident that an investigation would exonerate the Louisiana Democrats, so he's not risking much in allowing them to be investigated. But even if they are found guilty, losing a few low-clout state and local party members is a price that even the worst partisan hack would pay to bring down the President.
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