What's with the Rovian political machine

Josh Marshall reports that the administration has called upon discredited mobster Bernard Kerik to spin the Bush side of the Katrina debacle. He got off to a rough start on the Keith Olbermann last night.

They knew five days, six days in advance there was a category 5 storm. In a post-9/11 world, did they have protocols to evacuate? Was there a mandatory evacuation call? Did they have buses lined up? Did they have food and water lined up? These are all things that crisis managers had this day and age have to have. And I think there may be a question whether that was done or not.

That's great. They knew five or six days in advance that it was going to be a Cat 5 storm? Kerik must have an astrologer who hooks him up with the really sweet info since the National Hurricane Center said that Katrina was a Cat 2 moving toward a Cat 3 storm only two days before it made landfall on the Gulf Coast.

Do we have to endure this goof again? Can Rudy hire him back and put him deep undercover?

And he's scheduled to appear on Lou Dobbs tonight.

Just amazing!!!