Bush working hard to investigate Katrina shortcomings

Ok... obviously that title is a bit sarcastic. Sorry about that. This from John Cole:

The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior White House officials available for sworn testimony before two Congressional committees investigating the storm response.

John's comments, which save me the time of thinking something up.

I simply fail to understand how this sort of communication can or should be considered confidential. I am under no illusion that Democrats would honestly or fairly examine the evidence, and Iam fairly sure they will distort or portray in the worst possible light all the internal communications for political advantage. That is what opposition parties do, and specifically, that is what desperately out-of-power political parties do. You guys do remember the Rep. Dan Burton investigating Clinton’s cat, Socks?

If you read the rest of the source material from Cole's link, you'll also see that the Feds have denied a motion by one of Louisiana's congressmen to put up funding to bail out homeowners and mortgage lenders who were wiped out in the storm. This from John Cole's comments section, which seems to say it all.

Say it with me now—we can forgive Iraq’s debt, (attempt to) fund their reconstruction, and literally ship tons of money by plane to Iraq—billions of dollars—only to have it disappear in a haze of graft, but we can’t provide for our own in a time of crisis. This is the antithesis of what a government is supposed to do.