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Tipsheet

Worse Than Katrina

If you take away nothing more from Karl Rove's column about the Obama administration's oil disaster, keep this in mind: During Katrina, the  Bush administration was
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legally required to defer to state and local authorities, which are first responders under the 1988 Stafford Law.  In contrast, Obama's oil disaster happened in federal water -- and the feds therefore were in sole charge, right from the beginning.

Even so, it took the President 12 days to get down to the site . . . and even now, as the disaster rages, he's been busy at a fundraiser, hobnobbing with the Duke basketball team, and taking a vacation.

When one looks at the federal government's hardly unpredictable incompetence (coupled with the administration's penchant for blame-shifting), it doesn't do much to reassure one about the outcome for all of us when the federal government is controlling health care, does it?

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