Well-written, but wrong. A crisis like this is too much for any municipal government. Mike Bloomberg has spent his entire term as Mayor, along with Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer begging the federal government for the money it promised New York.(And Bloomy is, at least nominally, a Republican.) Sure, New Orleans has been a corrupt city for, hopefully you'll get the pun, a Long time. Probably since the Spanish owned it over 200 years ago, so it ain't about race (or religion). But Bush could've done several things without even leaving his ranch, which would certainly have appealed to the lazy bum. The ranch does have a phone, doesn't it? It better, if he's gonna keep calling it "The Western White House." And "the leftist media" consists entirely of The Village Voice, The American Prospect and The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin. If we really had a leftist media in America, John McCain would've kicked Al Gore out of the White House last November. Anyway, it's still a well-written parody. (This is what I call "fair and balanced": Praise the skill, rip the opinion.)

The governor calls the White House and begs for everything the feds can send. No answer. Everyone is away, she goes down the line of command and can't find anyone. But it's Ray's fault they could evacuate a few thousand people out of the 50,000 or so stuck in New Orleans ahead of the storm. That's the way the Republicans think.