Compassionate Conservatism part 2 and the Rove slime machine rears it's head.

Sen. Rick Santorum ( in a weekend interview) : (about the victims of Hurricane Katrina) "You have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving."

On Tuesday he later he clarified his remarks to exclude those who don't have transportation. In other words It took him three whole days to realize he sounded like an elitist, racist ass. Is it any wonder his poll numbers are dropping as fast as Bush's?

Speaking of Republicans making elitist assinine comments, here's a fun quote from that matronly icon of motherhood Barbara Bush after visiting the Houston Astrodome.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckled slightly)--this is working very well for them."

I wonder if she went right back to her mansion and Estateafter this?


Here's an excellent photo essay showing the difference between what the people in New Orleans were going through and what George Bush was going through.
And finally, Karl Rove is back in the picture providing new ideas for photo ops with firefighters and crafting a new zero-sum-debate about who's fault this whole mess was. His strategy is to blame the local officials at every turn.

The sad thing is that the 30% of this country that still believes in him will buy this "noise," hook line and sinker.