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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Monday, September 05, 2005

If only he acted this quickly after Hurricane Katrina

Is it just me, or did Bush seem to act a lot quicker to act on his chance at appointing the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court than he did on his decision to try and save New Orleans?

Of course, the rest of the country seems to understand that there are more important things that political rule of the Supreme Court at this point. And it's funny that if Bush had acted more decisively on Hurricane response, his almost urgent call to action on Justice Roberts wouldn't be so crass.