Bob Herbert unloaded on Bush in Thursday’s column.
Reality has been dealt a stunning blow by Mr. Bush. The administration’s high-handedness with the Katrina investigators comes at the same time as disclosures showing that the White House was warned in the hours just before the hurricane hit New Orleans that it might well cause catastrophic flooding and the breaching of the city’s levees.
That was early on the morning of last Aug. 29. On Sept. 1, with the city all but completely underwater, the president went on television and blithely declared, “I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.”
This guy is something. Remember his “Top Gun” moment aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln? And his famous taunt - “Bring ‘em on” - to the insurgents in Iraq? His breathtaking arrogance is exceeded only by his incompetence. And that’s the real problem. That’s where you’ll find the mind-boggling destructiveness of this regime, in its incompetence.
Fantasy may be in fashion. Reality may have been shoved into the shadows on Mr. Bush’s watch. But the plain truth is that he is the worst president in memory, and one of the worst of all time. Many thousands of people - men, women and children - have died unnecessarily (and thousands more are suffering) because of his misguided and mishandled policies.
I can’t say it any better than that, so I won’t even try…
The scumbag NY Times does not give anything away for free.