First, I'm asking all that read this blog to go to your newspaper and see if you can find the name Karl Rove. Of course you can't because he has never been a story. While New Orleans was not suffering through the incompetence of its Governor and Mayor and while Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist was alive, Rove was all the rage with the liberal media. Today, the liberal media has forgotten him (for good reason).

Second, I'm asking all that read this blog to go to your newspaper and see if you can find the name John G. Roberts. Of course you can't because the liberal media can only chew gum.

Third, I'm asking all that read this blog to go to your newspaper and see if you can find the name Cindy Sheehan. Of course you can't. See gum reference above.

Finally, I wrote the following letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe this morning:

Thank you to the Boston Globe for its excellent article listing the many errors made by Governor Kathleen Blanco, Mayor Ray Nagin and the New Orleans Police Department that contributed to the suffering of so many in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (Chronology of errors: how a disaster spread, September 11, A1).

For the hate-Bush crowd that did not read the article, the Boston Globe reported, that it was 12 hours after the National Hurricane Center in Florida called for a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans that "(Mayor) Nagin ordered the evacuation."

The Boston Globe further reports that the "police doubted the coming fury of Katrina", and that, according to Deputy Chief Steve Nicholas, "the 1,600 officer force of the New Orleans Police Department could handle Katrina just as it had dealt with countless other storms over the years."

Next, the Globe reports, that when Gov. Blanco finally got around to asking for help, she did not ask for "what the Gulf Coast would need most in the coming days: food, water, transportation to higher ground, and thousands of National Guard troops . . . instead she sought access to several federal assistance programs focusing almost solely on economic recovery . . . "

Lastly, Gov. Blanco did not make a formal request to Washington for the use of the New Mexico National Guard until, "New Orleans was almost completely under water." According to the timeline accompanying the article, this request was at least 24 hours after Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. Can you say, "sense of urgency", Governor?

Again, thank you the Boston Globe and its brave reporters that alerted us to the gross incompetence of Gov. Blanco, Mayor Nagin and, apparently, the entire leadership of the New Orleans Police Department. Without this reporting, I would have mistakenly (based on the rabid, hate-Bush, news stories) thought President Bush not only caused Katrina, but intentionally orchestrated the misery of hundreds of thousands of Americans.