Still stuck on stupid

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee met today in order to get its members some television face time. After all, why should the senators at the Alito hearings bashing Dubya get to hog all the attention.

The committee -- the Homeland Security one -- is conducting an investigation to determine how many ways it can blame Dubya for not only the drowning of New Orleans after Katrina didn't hit "The Chocolate City," but the hurricane itself and the sinking of the Titanic.

The Democrats, who inititally said they'd boycott any investigation NOT conducted by an independent counsel, have so far generated the following headlines today:

White House slowing Katrina inquiry, senators say

W. House accused of foot-dragging in Katrina probe

US forewarned about Katrina

Pre-Katrina warnings not heeded

White House told about Katrina's danger

White House Was Warned About Hurricane Katrina Flooding

Documents Show Govt Forewarned on Katrina

White House got detailed warnings ahead of Katrina

And those are just a few. The links above might work, or they might not. I'm not going to waste my time cleaning them up if they don't. You probably don't want to waste your time on them, anyway.

The headlines alone should be enough of a clue that the articles they link to are all pretty much the same.

They're a trip back in time to the news reports generated by the media for the Democrats in Katrina's immediate aftermath. It's all New Orleans, and all Dubya's fault before, during and after.

The lapses are still reverberating politically; Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4th District, chairman of the House national security subcommittee, said Monday, "Katrina has hurt the president more than anything else that's happened."

Once the magnitude of the tragedy was apparent, Shays said, the president "should have gone to New Orleans and stayed there," talking to people, trying to get help and taking charge of the relief effort.

Sheesh.