Tonight, the only thing that’s more shocking than the abject failure to respond to desperate need in a timely manner is the amazing way the government is being excoriated by the media. Reporter after reporter on the scene in the disaster areas is taking the government to task and holding on like pit bulls. Seems like just yesterday we were all wondering why the media seemed asleep at the wheel over Iraq and scandals like the Downing Street Memo.

As I’ve said before, I’ve always wanted to like my president. I’m an American. And even now, I think he must be a likeable guy, as I see him embracing victims in Biloxi. So this failure of proactive leadership is not the kind of scandal I want to see stick to him. But since the others – like the fraudulent pretext for the war in Iraq – have not stuck, I’ll take the justice I can get. Or a better word might be comeuppance.