Administration FUBAR
Rozius: Maureen Dowd: Begat, Bothered, Bewildered:
Doing his stations of the Katrina cross, President Bush went for breakfast with Mayor Ray Nagin at Betsy's Pancake House.
As Mr. Bush tried to squeeze past some tightly placed tables, a waitress, Joyce Labruzzo, teased him, saying, 'Mr. President, are you going to turn your back on me?'
'No ma'am,' he replied, with a laugh and a pause for effect. 'Not again.'
It was a rare unguarded moment, showing that his towering Katrina failure is lodged somewhere in the front of his cerebral cortex, in a trip of staged, studiously happy settings, steering away from the wreckage of buildings and people so searing for anyone who loved the saucy and sauce-laden New Orleans of old.
W.'s anniversary contrition for the cameras was a more elaborate version of his famous Air Force One flyover a year ago, when he had to be shown a DVD of angry news coverage of apartheid suffering here before he belatedly and grudgingly broke off his five-week Crawford vacation.
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