The Limits of Compassion

"How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane."

~ Newt Gingrich
2007 CPAC

Yes, Newt, it was a failure of citizenship — not the lack of transportation and a decent federal response — that doomed all those stupid un-American New Orleaners.

But ... on the up side, it's nice to know that we can always find someone to blame.