Hurricane!

Another political take on Hurricane Katrina.

The hurricane had hit less than 48 hrs before Vitter delivered Rove’s message. Nobody knew yet that Michael Brown was going to screw up as badly as he did. Remember, Brown did an exemplary job handling the devastation from Hurricane Charley in Florida the year before. There was no reason to automatically assume he would prove to be suddenly incompetent only twelve months later. Nor was there ever any discussion during Charlie of taking over the state’s National Guard and imposing martial law in Florida.