Let Them Eat Wagyu

Everyone remembers the media's hysterics about the Bush Administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.

As Kentuckians and others were freezing in the winter storm that blew in the from Midwest last week, the president was cuddled up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. unconcerned. He watched the Super Bowl. He hosted a "stimulus party."

According to The Associated Press, "more than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentucky, remained without electricity from the Ozarks through Appalachia. …. Finding fuel — heating oil along with gas for cars and generators — was another struggle."

"Thousands of people were staying in motels and shelters, asked to leave their homes by authorities who said emergency teams in some areas were too strapped to reach everyone in need of food, water and warmth. The outages disabled water systems, and authorities warned it could be days or weeks before power was restored in the most remote spots."

At least 55 died in Ohio, Texas, Kentucky, Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Virginia and West Virginia.

The storm, Kentucky's governor said, caused "the biggest natural disaster that this state has ever experienced in modern history." The spokesman for the Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative's local crew, which went to help, put it this way: "This is the worst they've ever seen."

Where were the calls for Mr. Obama to intervene? Why didn't he alight in Air Force One for a visit?

So as frozen Kentuckians wondered where their next meal would come from, Obama cranked up the thermostat so high, The New York Times reported, "you could grow orchids in there," and chowed down on Wagyu steak that costs $100 a pound.