New Orleans, You're Doing A Heck Of A Job

"It's a heck of a place to bring your family."
-President Bush yesterday, giving the kiss of death to New Orleans

The NY Times has more on the President's visit: In New Orleans, Bush Speaks With Optimism but Sees Little of Ruin

President Bush made his first trip here in three months on Thursday and declared that New Orleans was "a heck of a place to bring your family" and that it had "some of the greatest food in the world and some wonderful fun."

President Bush and Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans attended a meeting Thursday with the city's political and business leaders.
Mr. Bush spent his brief visit in a meeting with political and business leaders on the edge of the Garden District, the grand neighborhood largely untouched by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina, and saw little devastation. He did not go into the city's hardest-hit areas or to Jackson Square, where several hundred girls from the Academy of the Sacred Heart staged a protest demanding stronger levees...

The President then headed off to Florida for a Republican Party fundraiser. Heck of a job.