Dems to further politicize hurricane

The Democrats are preparing to use the New Orleans catastrophe as a political hatchet, reports The Boston Globe. More Bush-bashing, you ask? Nah, that would be too obvious.

Senate Democrats said yesterday that they will invoke the vast disparities in income and living conditions laid bare by the Hurricane Katrina disaster to sharpen their questioning of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. at his confirmation hearings next week.

Oh. My. God. Have they no shame? Well, no they don't.

The scenes of devastation featuring primarily poor African-American residents in New Orleans have highlighted the widening gap between rich and poor, said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts.

When asked about the widening gap in legal representation between rich and poor people driving young women off bridges and walking away, Kennedy had no comment.