To: S. Blumenthal Re: My Big, Black Dick Subj: Blow It

Even now that it's fashionable to blame everything since and including the extinction of the dinosaurs on the Bush Administration, it's still amazing how many people are blaming George W. Bush for Hurricane Katrina. Take former Clinton advisor (yeah, that sounds like a fun job) Sidney Blumenthal, published in Salon and picked up by that hungry-for-truth nation that made "Holocaust" a household word:

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

OK, two can play at that game. Try this on: if your former boss had followed through on his "virtual obsession" with getting bin Laden as much as he focused on getting some fat sloppy intern his daughter's age to hum "Hail to the Chief" between his pasty white thighs, there might not have been a 9/11, and thus, no Iraq war. And New Orleans would have that impermeable force field Bill Clinton always wanted to build.

I've had it with this shit.

UPDATE: Ah, the voice of reason. Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation reminds us all that this "is not a time for personal attacks." And, P.S., "At least [Rush] Limbaugh has the excuse that drug abuse tends to stunt emotional development." OK, time for one or two more personal attacks.

No, says vanden Heuvel, now it is time to "empathize with those who are suffering and think about how we can help them" ... apparently by "asking serious questions about why the Iraq War has led the White House to divert funds from an urgent project to upgrade levees." Um, you'd think a magazine editor would own a friggin' dictionary.

UPDATE 2 - UPDATE BOOGALOO: EU Rota swings the mightly LexisNexis hammer at Blumenthal's argument.

UPDATE 3 - REVENGE OF THE BLOG: Stephen Spruiell lays on the hurt.