Katrina and Poly-Spin

Sorry to, like many, be on a Katrina roll.

While the left is hammering away the usual dogma that Katrina raises all sorts of “issues relating to class, race, and poverty,” I think it raises only two issues, the incompetence of government and the inexhaustible capacity for socialists to milk any event for the purposes of creating a bigger and more powerful central state authority.

When it’s all said and done and partisan committee investigations are presented through the usual channels of poly-spin (“poly” referring to both politics and the multi-sided nature of its distortion), the “conclusions” of the media, government, and bureaucracy will be that “government failed – give us more government and more money to continue its failings.”