A chilling lack of empathy - and ability (Dowd)

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<snip> Shirt-sleeves rolled up, W. finally landed in Hell on Friday and chuckled about his wild boozing days in "the great city" of N'Awlins. He was clearly moved. <snip>

Out of the cameras' range, and avoided by W., was a convoy of thousands of sick and dying people, some sprawled on the floor or dumped on baggage carousels at a makeshift M-A-S-H unit inside the terminal. <snip>

Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA -- a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association -- admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center.

Was he sacked instantly? No, our tone-deaf president hailed him in Mobile, Ala., on Friday: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." <snip>

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