7:58 a.m.: By e-mail, the White House Communications Office sends out its "Morning Update." It lists two events on Bush's schedule for the entire day: a "Social Dinner in Honor of Cinco de Mayo" and, an hour later, post-dinner entertainment. To react to the main news of the day -- thousands of deaths from the cyclone in Burma -- Bush sends his wife out to make a statement. She criticizes the Burmese government for its failure "to issue a timely warning to citizens in the storm's path" and "to meet its people's basic needs." Reporters, too tactful to draw parallels to New Orleans, quiz her instead about daughter Jenna's wedding, and the names of future grandchildren. "George and Georgia, Georgina, Georgette," the first lady says.
The tragedy of this is that the mess that he leaves behind is real and horrible, and it wasn't pleasant and fresh and fantastic in Baghdad yesterday. While the Dauphin counts the minutes until school is out and Senior Week begins, the best we have are dying in the sands of Mesopotamia. And that, he must wear on whatever conscience he has until he shuffles from this earth.
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