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Sunday, September 11, 2005

Noblesse oblige? Not our president

...To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, we went to New Orleans with the government we have — replete with its Chertoffs, Brownies, Cheneys and assorted other ideologues, cronies and schemers who gorge on patronage, revel in politics and brush off the mundane responsibilities of the offices they hold. They're Big Picture guys who have brought the same management skills to the Gulf states that they brought to that other gulf....
Posted by Martin Marprelate at 9/11/2005 07:36:00 PM
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