'Brownie, You're Doing a heck of a Job'

I wonder why not one member of the mainstream press has likened Obama's miserable response to the devastation that is Haiti to that which George W. Bush brought to ... Katrina!  If "response" is even the right word.

Another example of either fecklessness or disinterest.  You decide:

New Study Suggests U.S. Ambassador Rice Isn't Engaging the UN
By Richard Grenell, writing in the Huffington Post

[Permanent Representative to the UN Susan] Rice has been spending several days a week in Washington with her larger than normal DC-based staff and spending less time with the 200-plus employees who work for her in New York. While Rice launched her tenure with a glamour spread in Vogue Magazine by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz showing her kicking back in an empty Security Council Chamber, she seems to not enjoy the Chamber when it's full of diplomats. During the recent Haiti crisis, Rice was not only absent from the Security Council vote to expand the UN's peacekeeping operation but she also failed to call an emergency meeting in the immediate aftermath to request more help. In fact, 7 days after the Haiti earthquake left tens of thousands of people in the streets without food or shelter, it was UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that came to the Security Council to request more troops - the American Ambassador hadn't bothered. [link]

It's fair to say that very few of the victims of Hurricane Katrina died after the storm subsided.  Nearly all were killed in circumstances brought about directly by either wind or flood.  In Haiti, the relief effort, as sporadic as it's been, as underwhelming as it's been, as leaderless as it's been, has caused the deaths of thousands who were trapped in rubble and unable to escape.  Studies will eventually show that more people died in Port au Prince of starvation and dehydration than died in the entirety of the Katrina calamity.

But you'd never know it by following the mainstream press.  The narrative with those morons is devoted to Bono and George Clooney and Madonna and we-are-the-world ... And on Michelle Obama's campaign against obesity.

More of the same.

Bottom line: George Bush can fairly be criticized for his inadequate response to the storm that destroyed New Orleans.  But his failure doesn't hold a candle to the non-response and indifference that has come out of the White House since Haiti was destroyed and 150,000 human beings lost their lives.

Some day the press will take note of it.  Perhaps before we're all dead and gone.