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Is Katrina the end to Bush's brand of 'conservativism'?

Very interesting. While the folks at redstate.org are already counter-spinning hard due to the supposed bias in the "MSM" (Mainstream Media), more intellectual folks are starting to ask if Katrina represents a tipping point for the current administration and their worldview.

I first noticed it with Fukuyama's recent column about Iraq on Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31fukuyama.html

Then Brooks wrote an interesting history of Floods and US politics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01brooks.html

The same day Douthat wrote an eye-opening piece on the neo-con world view and how it deals with 9/11 versus Katrina.
http://www.theamericanscene.com/2005/09/anti-911-on-september-11-there-was.php

Noam Scheiber at the New Republic replied to Douthat's piece.
http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2764

Tom Bartnett said the Bush admin "makes Jon Stewart's job such a frickin' cakewalk that the man should send his Peabody's to the White House as a thank-you."
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/002244.html

And then today Brooks essentially said we've already reached the tipping point since the Bush adminstration lacks competence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04brooks.html

Very interesting times we live in.

(PS - it should be noted that today is my 6th wedding anniversary with Micaela, which, I just now realized, also means I've been doing this whole blog thing for a year.)

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