Just watched the video clip of the MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann editorial smackdown of our government – at all levels – for its handling of the Katrina disaster. I’ve never watched the show before, and imagine it’s highly sensationalized, but he makes several excellent points, such as:

• “this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.”
• “Anybody seen the Vice President lately? The man whose message this time last year was, ‘I’ll Protect You, The Other Guy Will Let You Die’?”