The Crisis is Over, But

The search and rescue mission in New Orleans is over and Michael Brown is out on his keister. My fellow Americans, pat yourselves on the back. The storm is finally passed.

In my schema, we are on to the second R from Rescue to Relief. The last R of Recovery is going to be the long term deal, and there's going to be 60 billion plus dollars in that. Since I understand the liberal impulse, we are going to find out all of the contractors who win bids that have any connection whatsoever to any of the Bush team. Hold your noses, it's just a couple weeks away.

Meanwhile I'll be focusing on the displaced in their new places and praying that I find one of them blogging, because if I see another TV broadcast with stray dogs I'm going to vomit. Not that dogs ain't cute, it's just that they're always misinterpreted and we really never get the straight story from them. I think we will hear a more useful and gratifying response from bloggers.

The political consequences of this great displacement will very much be like that of 9/11. For me personally, it has been much more emotional. I'm at a high point today, which feels almost like normal, but over the past 10 days I've been operating with one emotional wheel in the sand. I have a couple predictions about political repercussions.

Libertarians are going to have a harder time everywhere.

The FEMA conspiracy theorists of the days of Waco are finally going to get the fisking they deserve.

Moderate Conservative Republicans like myself are going to gain. Think Giuliani & Whitman.

The death toll & the actual consequences of the watered down buses will be substantially lower than screamers have asserted.

Nagin breaks even. Blanco loses, and obviously Brown goes down in flames.

Katrina bloggers will emerge.

Add these two fragments:
Quote of the Day:
"There are no atheists in foxholes, and no Libertarians in Louisiana."
-- Prometheus 6

A Purity Test for Limousine Liberals.

That's all for now. I gotta get back to work.