Look Who Didn't Get The Memo

Read these two quotes and then tell me what's wrong with this picture:

Kathleen Blanco: I Should Have Called the Military

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco's abrupt decision Wednesday night to take responsibility for her state's inadequate response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster followed an inadvertent confession that was caught on camera where Blanco admitted she blew it.

"I really should have called for the military," Blanco said, while chatting with her press secretary in between TV interviews. "I really should have started that in the first call."

Unbeknownst to Blanco, her bombshell acknowledgment was recorded on a network satellite feed, and by Tuesday the clip was getting wide exposure in Louisiana news broadcasts....

Where earlier she and her aides had openly blamed the Bush Administration for bungling Katrina rescue efforts, Blanco announced: "The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility."

Just as surprising were Blanco's words of praise for the White House: "I want the people of Louisiana to know that we have a friend and a partner in President George W. Bush. I thank you, Mr. President."

I don't give Blanco any credit for this belated attempt at image rehabilitation. She only offered it because her penchant for bleep-ups is insatiable and continuing to point fingers at her federal benefactors after this gaffe would have made her look clinically insane.

That still puts her at least one up on this individual, who has made a career out of several different strains of insanity:

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is blaming President Bush for the hundreds of deaths that resulted from what he said was the Federal Emergency Management Agency's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

"The Bush Administration just went back to turning [FEMA] into a dumping ground for people who evidently didn't have anything else to do," Dean told the Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes on Tuesday.

"And it's really too bad because now people have paid for that with their lives," he added.

If there was any doubt about whether or not the Democrats' "blame game" had jumped the shark, Dr. Demented sticking his oar in should settle that question.

Well, that and the President charting a bold new market-oriented direction for domestic policy tonight. Because if the Donks' most malleable audience for their propaganda (i.e. the GOP) doesn't buy it, nobody outside their asylum of a base ever will.