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...computer worms-I knew in my heart that the future was passing me by. I also believed that I could catch up later, the way I had with TiVo and instant messaging. But then, just recently, the future dawned -before I was prepared for it, as usual. The writer Andrew Sullivan, whose work I admired but who I barely knew, called to ask me if I could spare five days to ?guest blog? on his influential website, Andrew Sullivan.com. I confessed to him that I didn?t know how to blog. He asked me if I knew how to write...
...order to reach Andrew?s East Coast readers at dawn, before they set out on their commutes, I posted the my first blog entry at 4 a.m. I?m rarely conscious at that hour, and I wasn?t conscious that Monday morning, either, even though I was writing at top speed about terrorism and other big topics. My fogginess didn?t bother me, however, because I?d been told to write simply and conversationally...
Blanco is not the first Governor to learn those kinds of lessons the hard way. In 1992 Florida Governor Lawton Chiles came under withering criticism for waiting three days after the destruction from Hurricane Andrew before making a written request for the federal troops that were standing by with food and tents. As for FEMA, Chiles later said ruefully, it "may be well meaning, but they have no clout in the initial phase ... You've got to loudly and strongly and probably with all kinds of paper tell the White House what you need...
Others have suggested that the President get more power to order a mandatory evacuation or federalize troops. But eerily similar proposals were made after Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and here we are again. If Andrew is any guide, it will prove more politically palatable to spend more money and appoint more experts. And that, says Clark Kent Ervin, former inspector general for the DHS, would be a huge improvement. "I am a Republican. I am not one of these people who thinks the answer to everything is more money," says Ervin. "But I do think part of the problem...
...begins to wane, some remaining aides lack the chops to set him right when he is off course. Several of his closest advisers--including Condoleezza Rice, Alberto Gonzales and Karen Hughes--have left the West Wing for Cabinet posts or jobs in other agencies. His chief of staff, Andrew Card, has never been mistaken for James Baker, the man who made a minor career out of setting Bush's father right. And Bush has filled a number of lesser spots around the government with political hacks and patronage candidates--most embarrassingly Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency...