Unbah.

Of all the many, many bad things I can say about George Bush, one of the few nods I'll give his way is that he seems to have (either through his handlers or innately) a maniacally attuned sense of politics. I got swept up when I saw him in the rubble just after 9/11, and he seems to always understand the best way to politicize a situation. (It's his choices of how to politicize these situations that are almost unilaterally awful.)

But this...this is inexcusable.

Forget about the fact that 3,000 National Guardsmen and women who would normally have been there to help evacuate and rescue citizens are instead fighting in Iraq.

Forget about the fact that the levees which broke had their budgets slashed before they could be completed -- because the money needed to be diverted to Iraq.

This photo was taken yesterday, two days after Hurricane Katrina smashed the Gulf Coast and really just one day into the country beginning to understand the horror of the damage. Also, he played golf yesterday as well. (Note: so did I. But, then, I'm not the leader of the free world.)

Just try, instead, to wrap your head around this photo. The United States has lost a city, it is our greatest natural disaster in any of our lifetimes, and...Bush is playing guitar? At a conference to talk about V-J Day? What the fucking fuck?