Former First Lady Barbara Bush has inadvertently given us a window on how the Bush clan views those who are suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  On Wednesday, Mrs. Bush visited a bit with evacuees in the Houston area and she shared her thoughts on how the hungry, sick and displaced masses have fared thus far:  

from The New York Times:
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."  (full article)


Perhaps this explains the Bush team’s general lack of coordination and slow response to the disaster.  Could it be that they felt that the longer they waited to respond, the better off those “underprivileged” folks would be?

It looks as if the Bush plan is basically the same whether we’re talking about foreign policy or domestic policy. Whether you're in Iraq or the Gulf coast, once you lose your home, your livelihood, your family and your health, you’re simply “better off.” And by then, you’re just a breath away from being in that “better place” that they talk so much about in the Bible.