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The bottom line in America's current political lunacy is, disgustingly, this: a hurricane can fill a hole seven feet below sea level with water and almost half the country will blame George W. Bush and the media will only too gleefully cover it.

Everything is now fodder for an attack ad. Even the weather.

I can't hold President Bush completely blameless, though. He has perpetuated the obnoxious fallacy that the federal government will be there for you from the rocking of the cradle to the rolling of the hearse. Writing in the New York Times, David Brooks predicts a dramatic political shift as a result of Katrina's chaos:

If Brooks is correct, we can only hope it manifests in a wiser, less gullible, more self-reliant populous and more responsible politicians who won't pretend the government will -- or even can -- save them from natural disasters and looters (or even acts of terror, for that matter).

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