After reading Tina Brown’s latest op-ed in The Washington Post, the only thing I could think of was the classic Saturday Night Live line: Jane, you ignorant slut.

It is time to fisk another smug Liberal who is almost wetting her pants with joy at the destruction of Hurricane Katrina and the possibility that the sheeple of America will finally wake up and see that Bush is evil. EVIL I tell you. She does not even try to hide her glee. It is disgusting.

Shall we begin?

Even though it is so familiar in our imaginations, it is still a wonderful moment in the upcoming Discovery documentary “The Flight That Fought Back” when the doomed passengers on Flight 93 seize the food cart and race it down the aisle toward the cockpit like a battering ram, united in courage and rage. At the preview of the movie at the Bryant Park Hotel in Manhattan you could feel the exhalation of tension in the audience during the reenactment: the wish-fulfillment, the satisfaction at the virility of the gesture.

New York may have superficially recovered since 9/11, but the Bush victory in the election last year left a hangover of self-doubt that drained the city’s mojo. Katrina’s perfect meteorological and political storm has at least blown away that mood. New York’s sullen sense of carrying around a deviant secret — that President Bush is an empty flight suit — has gone with the wind.

Well that was simple enough. Thanks to Katrina, New York can finally open up and proudly proclaim that Bush is an idiot! Thank you devastating hurricane that may have killed thousands. Without your “perfect meteorological and political storm” the stupid people of this city and the country would have never known what we have known all along.

If 9/11 was Bush’s Woodstock, Katrina is his Altamont — the place where his ability to unite people behind a flurry of flag-waving came to look like the hollow sham it always was. John Edwards’s mantra of Two Americas doesn’t sound so corny now that Bush’s soaring vision of democracy on the march has suddenly been laid as bare as an abandoned Superdome where the toilets are overflowing.

I am sorry, you can not blame poverty on Bush. I have a sneaky suspicion that the poor people from New Orleans who have been on our TV sets for the past 10 days were poor back in the mid 1990’s when WonderBoy Clinton was in office. But this is typical of the Left. Everything before Bush did not exist. Time began in 2000 when Bush won the election. Oh, sorry, when he “won” the “election”.

So now Tina is at least being honest with us. To her, the patriotic outpouring that occurred after our country was viciously and without cause attacked on 9/11 was nothing more than “the hollow sham it always was”. I guess she does not believe that Americans should have rallied around the flag to fight our enemy. An enemy we DID NOT choose. Wow. But I bet she would be the first to tell me not to question her patriotism. Sure Tina, sure.

But for New Yorkers, the dimensions of the pain mean there is not much glee in saying “I told you so.” Ever since 9/11 we’ve been endlessly stiffed on “homeland security.” Millions for red Montana, nickels for blue New York.

What does she offer as proof? Again, this is a common thread with the Left. All you have to do is say something. If you say it, it has to be true. So, in an effort to help her out, here is a report claiming that New York City is getting stiffed, while here is a report claiming that millions are being poured into New York. There has been a tremendous amount of pork coming out of DC lately. And unfortunately, Republicans are behind most of it. Ok Tina, you and I agree on something. New York and other large cities may need more money than Montana. I am willing to cede that to you. But next time at least provide the facts.

We had to grit our teeth and host the cynical hijacking of 9/11 by the Republican convention last year, where even Rudy Giuliani franchised his (and our) authentic moment of heroism to the Bush reelection machine.

The twin towers are still a gaping hole in the ground fought over by greedy real estate agents, prima donna architects and culture warriors distractedly arbitrated by a Republican governor preoccupied with national political ambitions. The current plans for a third-rate office building on top of a bunker with a censored museum seems like a strange advertisement for freedom. But perhaps it suits the city’s mood of lingering disappointment after 9/11’s squandered goodwill. Osama bin Laden’s outrage goes unavenged while we continue to suck wind in Baghdad.

The last I heard, the 9/11 museum had been hijacked by political correctness nannies who are insisting we show how bad America has been in an effort to show that maybe, just maybe we deserved 9/11.

Also, she falls back to the tried and true talking point of the Left: The war in Iraq has distracted from the real war on terror. This has been refuted so many times, that I grow tired of even pointing out how ignorant her position is. Look, Iraq probably did not have anything to do with 9/11, but Saddam sure as hell loved terrorists. He gave them sanctuary. He funded them. He would make deals with them if it furthered his interests. Now that we are fighting in Iraq, we are killing terrorists. That is ALWAYS a good thing. I hope we kill thousands upon thousands of terrorists. At least the hot war is being fought a long way from the U.S. That in itself makes us safer. Also, taking out another country that gave safe passage to terrorists means there are fewer places left for them to hide. Hear that Syria? You’re next.

But to say that Iraq is a distraction and that Osama is the key is just not grounded in reality. If we kill Osama tomorrow, and I hope and pray that we can send that SOB to hell very soon, terrorism will still be here with us. He is just one of the many heads. Yes, we need to kill him, but taking out Saddam has helped as well. And do not give me any of that BS that says that Iraq has turned law abiding Muslims into terrorists because of our actions. If they are terrorists who kill innocent women and children and who hack off the heads of innocent people, the war did not make them that. They were already that, they are just looking for any excuse to cover their feeble mind.

But now, in Katrina’s aftermath, there’s something different in the air: the scent of insurrection. The needless torment of New Orleans has reignited the dormant passions of the election. E-mails are flying again between friends who’ve been out of touch for months, enclosing Web links to new polemics of disgust. The big donors with wallet fatigue after John Kerry’s loss are ready to write checks again, big time, for any Democrat who shows courage.

It’s as if the tragedy in the Gulf Coast has awakened us from a deep materialistic sleep to acknowledge the pain of poverty and racial inequality for the first time in years. Those Democrats who still temporize for fear of being tagged as “playing politics” don’t seem to understand that being all kissyface and timid is as over as strategy as it is as substance. Better to play politics than play possum. Maybe Hillary should stop going on fact-finding trips to Alaska with her new Republican pals. Even before Katrina changed the landscape, her careful tactics of sleeping with the enemy had begun to annoy the town that adored her.

Yeah, that is right, she is actually happy for Katrina’s destruction. After all it has awakened her party. Big dollar donors are now writing checks again. Happy days are here again! Seriously lady, you are sick.

I am not going to get into her claim of needless torment for New Orleans. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PREVENTED FROM ORDERING THE ARMY TO DO LAW ENFORCEMENT. That is the job of the National Guard UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE STATE GOVERNOR. I am sorry, but it only took 72 hours for the Federal government to get troops and aid to New Orleans after the Governor FINALLY requested and authorized it. Go read my post on this topic.

In addition to this, go here to see how the Governor prevented aid from reaching those stuck in the Super Dome. How is this Bush’s fault?

Tina, Hillary, as much as I despise her, is a smart politician. She KNOWS that a Liberal Democrat will not win the presidency. It just won’t happen. What she is doing is moving, at least in appearances, to the center. She is reaching out and building bridges. Don’t get me wrong, she is still Liberal at heart but she knows what she has to do to get elected. So yes, Democrats, listen to Tina. Speak out even more strongly on EVERYTHING the President does. But you guys may need larger tin foil hats.

…we saw the real Landrieu on ABC’s “This Week.”

Red-eyed and combative, she gave George Stephanopoulos an air tour of devastation and talked about the New Orleans sheriffs gripping handcuffs in their teeth as they swam to secure prisoners who would have terrorized the town further if allowed to escape. “If one person criticizes them or says one more thing,” she told Stephanopoulos, “including the president of the United States . . . I might have to punch him literally.”

Way to go, Mary! This is what America needs. …

Yeah, we need violence towards the President.

In yesterday’s New York Post, Dick Morris wrote that W’s reputation will surely recover because rebuilding New Orleans can now become a rallying theme, a “new source of popularity. . . . A disaster like Katrina is just what a president needs to anchor his second term.” The cynicism is breathtaking but also shrewd.

I agree Tina, Dick Morris can be, well, a dick. I do not think the President needs to play politics with this disaster. But you and your fellow Democrats are sure doing it. To me that is breathtaking. The President may appear to be playing politics with this thing, but in actuality, he is defending himself from libelous MSM reporting that all the blame is his and his alone. When he actually defends himself it is another Roverian plot to discredit and squash descent. But when you guys use a terrible natural disaster for your gain, you are being real, authentic. There is plenty of blame for this thing but the MAJORITY of the blame should rightfully be placed at the feet of the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana. Pointing that out is not playing politics it is basic 6th grade Civics. You know, that whole separation of powers deal in the Constitution. Go read the 10th Amendment sometime Tina.

What’s so troubling about Bush is not that he is incompetent, as many currently charge. It’s that he is dismissive, unless programmed to be otherwise.

Damn that Karl Rove. He is EVIL I tell you. “Unless he is programmed to be otherwise”, that is breathtakingly snotty. After 5 years, is that the best you guys can come up with? Ok, he is not totally incompetent, but he is dismissive unless Rove programs some other response. Why do you people always have to have a straw man behind Bush. You did the same with Reagan. Ever stop to think that maybe they are real living breathing human beings capable of abstract thought and of taking actions with out the puppeteer moving the strings? Amazing.

She then ends with a swipe at Bush’s mother. Nice, real classy. If you were a Conservative writer and you had taken a swipe at some Democrats mother….you would have been crucified in the MSM. Oh THAT liberal media?

So sit back and enjoy the disaster Tina. After all, it will give your guys many, many more chances to make asses of themselves. Remember, how do you know that all the suffering and destruction is not another Roverian plot to make Democrats look stupid. After all he is the REAL brains of the operation, right?