Another principled conservative tells it like it is

From prof. Stephen Barnbridge's blog:

The Bed Wetting Right? A.K.A. "So I'm a RINO. So Sue Me."

Tony Snow on the reaction to Hurricane Katrina:

Let's face it, the political left -- aided and abetted by Pat Buchanan and members of the bed-wetting right -- made utter fools of themselves.

At the risk of being accused of being a candidate for Depends, let's review some basic facts:

* The head of the National Guard has acknowledged that the deployment of his personnel to Iraq delayed the response to Katrina by at least a day
* Senior Bush administration personnel told the NYT that politics delayed their response
* Bush's choice to head FEMA has been relieved
* Conservative pundit/NRO Corner blogger Rod Dreher observes that "a raft of FEMA's top leaders have little or no emergency management experience, but are instead politically well connected to the GOP and the White House. This is a scandal, a real scandal. How is it possible that four years after 9/11, the president treats a federal agency vital to homeland security as a patronage prize?"

There's a big difference between incontinence and telling the truth about an administration that is, if I may resort to being crude, screwing the pooch. Only fanatical Bush defenders like Snow can't see the difference. It's time for real conservatives and RINOs to unite in holding this administration's feet to the fire. As I've said multiple times - see. e.g., Iraq and Katrina and What Might Have Been - Bush is pissing away the conservative moment with his incompetence and tone deafness.

Full post (with links) here