I thought only Parisians Took all of August Off

You know things aren't going well for the Bush Administration when US News has this article:

If you want to know what went wrong with the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, just examine the following statement by Dick Cheney.

When asked by a reporter why he did not return from his vacation earlier than last Thursday, three days after the hurricane hit, the vice president replied: "I came back four days early."

And you can see why Cheney is so testy. He had to miss four days of his vacation to help a bunch of people who probably had never voted Republican in their lives.

Whew - read the whole thing - it gets even better.