Unbelievable

Now this is a laugh. Reuter's Jim Loney writes that the estimates of death from Katrina are so much lower than predicted and that -- get this -- the 10,000 estimate by Mayor Nagel and Sen David Vitter was deliberate because of Washington's slow response.

Advancing the notion of a catastrophic death toll may have helped get the attention of Washington, which has being widely criticized for a slow response.

It was a strategy rather than the blovating of two absolutely clueless politicians who panicked and should not now be held accountable for their cluelessness. Nope. They're heroes for getting Washington to respond.

Unbelievable. (Reuters still calls terrorists "insurgents" so they won't hurt anyone's feelings.)