Molly Ivins has a word to say about why politics matter, and why Katrina has made that clear.
Here’s something that I could have written – straight from a New Yorker who has had enough of this charade of a Presidency.
And finally, the Rude Pundit (not for those who don’t like swear words!) on leadership and the lack of it. Look, I didn’t like Rudy Giuliani, but I’d take all of his bullshit twelve times over for the leadership he showed on 9/11, a leadership that is obviously lacking with Katrina, and in the person of George Bush Jr. If people think that’s leadership, we really aren’t teaching history in school anymore.
Leaders are people like Mother Jones, John L. Lewis, Eugene Debs, Cesar Chavez: the people who brought you Labor Day weekend, the 40-hour work week, and weekends. None of them were perfect, but all of them understood something that Dubya does not: that what people need is power, not promises.
Happy Labor Day, folks.