Maggie's Farm

The bureaucratic approach, at FEMA, reported by Buzzmachine/

Stop the US Occupation of NO: Sheehan and the Left display more wisdom; NE Repub

Roberts is great: Vote against him. NYT via Powerline, also by Right Thinking

The problem the Dems face, from Macho Nachos:

Unless they discover a purpose, a vision, and a personality, the Democrats will be doomed to repeat the same political note over and over again - namely, tying themselves to the possibility of American failure in Iraq, or at the very least, Republican failure at home. However, they will always have a problem taking this approach: no one is inspired by someone who looks for failure, who barely contains their glee when it occurs, and who seeks to capitalize on a misfortune that affects a whole country. That is not the sort of agenda that almost anyone votes for, and it certainly isn't one that's capable of flipping a ten-seat majority.

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