What he said

Via Andrew Sullivan -- The Irish Trojan's blog captures just about what I was feeling as I was watching it all unfold. "You have got to be kidding me!"

If the braintrust running this country really thought that "the water would drain away fairly quickly" after a direct hit on New Orleans from a major hurricane, then my God, our country is run by the most absolutely incompetent bunch of nitwits imaginable. The city is below sea level. Once it floods, there is nowhere for the water to "drain away" to! Everyone knows this!!!