Doug Henwood
I alternate between thinking that the Bush admin's scheming to use vouchers and other right-wing faves in NO reconstruction is proof that they're lost in a bubble, dreaming, and that it's the liberals who are the ones lost in the bubble, dreaming, that the right has taken a fatal blow from Katrina. Which is it? Neither? Both?
Doug ___________________________________
I don't believe Katrina has inflicted any permanent damage on the right. Certainly the hard-core right, the 35 - 40 percenters, are utterly unmoved by what happened in NO; as many here have noted, so long as Bush stayed on message, he could personally commit any atrocity on live television without losing any appreciable support from his devoted legions. Among the less ideologically committed, the much lower than anticipated death toll in NO will dissipate whatever anger they are currently directing at the administration. Such people could get worked up over thousands of dead Americans floating in a toxic lake, but issues such as poverty, injustice, and economic opportunism aren't going to sustain a lasting repulsion for the Administration and its works, as innumerable events amply attest. In a couple weeks time, it will be business as usual, and people such as ourselves are going to be only ones interested in what's going on in NO and Mississippi. Same as it ever was.