Bad News

Obama won't go to New Orleans:

• The White House says President Barack Obama won't be heading to the Gulf Coast in the next few days. But press secretary Robert Gibbs left open the possibility of a later presidential visit to assess the spreading oil spill.

Oh wait, now he will go (7 hours later):

• President Obama plans to visit the catastrophe zone off Lousiana's coast within the next 48 hours as SecDef Gates mobilizes the Lousiana National Guard and WH convenes a principal-level homeland security response meeting. Republicans begin to question speed of Obama's response.

Republicans to question Obama's response? That's unpatriotic! you aren't allowed to question the president...unless it happens to be a Republican in office:

• The rapidly expanding environmental catastrophe caused by the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is presenting a growing political challenge to the Obama White House, with Mr. Obama and his aides at pains to defend the response and forestall comparisons to the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
  
  
• Failure to get control of the relief effort and contain the environmental challenge could pose the same kind of political threat to Mr. Obama's popular standing that the much-criticized handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina did for former President George W. Bush. And unlike Katrina, it is likely the federal government will be the clear lead authority in dealing with the BP spill.

Wait a minute. What's that last line?

• And unlike Katrina, it is likely the federal government will be the clear lead authority in dealing with the BP spill.
  
  
• Mr. Obama's response to the disaster will be closely scrutinized for parallels to the response of Mr. Bush to the devastating Hurricane Katrina that blew into New Orleans in August 2005, destroying levies and damaging the below-sea-level city. Later assessments by some organizations found that the primary responsibility for the disaster response lay with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, not federal officials, but that did not lessen the political damage to Mr. Bush's administration.

Finally, a media admission that it was the state and local failures that doomed New Orleans and not Bush's fault.

And for all the drooling lefties who will start screeching in the comments about how this is different, it isn't. And it isn't so funny when the shoe is on the other foot either, is it? Don't expect to see your crap in our comment sections either.