Source: New York Times
Adam Nagourney from the New York Times figures out that Democrats can and will use Katrina the same way the GOP used the 9/11 attacks as political ammunition to move their cause forward.
I honestly think this guy woke up this morning, hit his head, and finally had a "great moment of inspiration," realizing for once how this whole "politics" game actually works.
NEW ORLEANS, April 21 -- Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, toured a house on Friday that the Hurricane Katrina floods wrecked, picking up debris, lamenting the federal response and leaving little doubt of the powerful symbolism his party sees in the ruined neighborhoods here.
As Mr. Dean's well-covered hurricane-cleanup mission suggested, New Orleans may well become for Democrats in 2006 and 2008 what New York was for Republicans after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, an evocative metaphor rooted in tragedy that can potentially be turned to electoral advantage.
Where Republicans looked to the imagery of a battered but resilient New York to project a tough president standing up to the dangerous world, Democrats are looking to this city as the symbol of an administration that is at once incompetent and heartless.
"It brings back home the notion that there is a difference with the two parties," said Donna Brazile, a Democratic leader whose family home was ravaged by the flooding.
Borrowing this from a diaper commercial, Mr. Nagourney: you're a big boy now!
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