Not another damned commission

Michelle Malkin wrote in Townhall Dead bodies are still floating all over New Orleans. Hundreds, if not thousands, of children are still searching for their parents. Wiped-out communities are still awaiting water and power. So, what is armchair first responder Sen. Hillary Clinton's first response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster? A commission.

In the unlikely event that she is successful in 2008 we should create a new commission every month to investigate her administration. For the first month, we can focus on all of the stuff she stole from the WhiteHouse when they left, and whether it has bee returned.

"It has become increasingly evident that our nation was not prepared," Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y., lectured in a Labor Day letter to President Bush. Yes, thank you, Sen. Sherlock. Those gleaming degrees from Wellesley and Yale Law are really paying off. Sen. Clinton's "Katrina Commission" would be modeled after the "independent" 9/11 Commission. I can see it now: Democrat Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, whose main imperative is covering up her own culpability, will be the next Jamie Gorelick;

The only way the Governor and the Mayor have a chance of covering up their ineptitude is to put them on the commission. Jamie Gorelick should have been a witness, not a member of the 9/11 Commission, since she was principly at fault.

Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, the local corrupt-o-crat who got his 15 minutes of fame on "Meet the Press" last week, will be the next Richard Ben-Veniste. And this time for "diversity," maybe they'll call on Randall "Black people are eating corpses . . . oh, never mind" Robinson and rapper Kanye "It's all about me" West to share their deep expertise.

All worthless people. And they will probably put some loud mouth RINOs on from the Republican side.

Despite the abject failures of local and state officials to prepare for the worst, abide by their own evacuation plans, maintain an effective police force, and crack down on looters, Sen. Clinton's commission would only examine the "adequacy of federal response efforts." Translation: Bash Bush.

What else have the Dems done, since he was elected?

Look, there's no question the feds fell down on the job. The president himself said he was "not satisfied" with the response.

But he is smart enough not to publically say he is going to fire the person in charge. Removing him in the middle of the crisis, or even saying you are going to remove him, would be very disruptive to the effort that is currently under place.

.... As military leaders now spearhead bureaucratically delayed recovery efforts and private citizens and corporations lead the way on massive charitable relief campaigns, the last thing this country needs is another grand-standing panel of blowhards to soak up public resources to restate the obvious. There isn't a single Katrina victim who will benefit from hindsight hound dogs publishing thousand-page tomes with cherry-picked evidence that distorts the true narrative of what happened and why.