The Presidency Shines: For 26 Minutes

So, the Bush administration can't get food and water to diabetic old folks in wheel chairs trapped in New Orleans, but they can, with one days notice, get the president there, along with his entourage and all it requires to orchestrate a television speech appearance, including lights, generators, cameras, sound equipment, transmission and editing trucks, makeup trucks and all the personnel to run it all. They can power up and light an entire section of New Orleans for their politically motivated purpose, shutting it down and leaving it in darkness once again when their broadcast was over, but they can't get power to hospitals where Americans, some of them children, died while waiting for the power to come back on to their respirators and dialysis machines.

Here's a great article from Tom Englehardt who turns out his daily "Tom Dispatch". He calls this one a "TomGram".