Though Bushmen had claimed that word never reached The White House that levees had finally been breached, The White House was told, all the evidence shows. Yes, this report shows that it’s doubtless that those In charge of tornadoes and floods and nor’easters Had all been informed and then sat on their keisters. And Chertoff was sluggish and clueless and worse. It’s in the report, all in chapter and verse: His failure to get what the crisis demanded, Like buses and boats, meant that thousands were stranded. While Bush, at the ranch, kept on cutting out brush, His gaggle of clowns seemed to be in no rush. So Brownie is hardly unique in this mob. No, others as well did a heckuva job. It’s easy to blame one incompetent slob, But others as well did a heckuva job.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”