Katrina Coverage

John Podhoretz:
Once again, as it has at every turn in his presidency, crisis has brought out the high-stakes gambler in George W. Bush. He believes in bold action, and in the extraordinarily risky speech he gave last night, bold action is exactly what he promised the American people...
...Unlike most conservatives, he believes that the power and depth of the federal government can be marshaled to improve the lives of people here and abroad by making use of, rather than husbanding, its resources...
Still, in ignoring the small-government sensitivities of conservatives in favor of a grand set of propoals that, had Bill Clinton delivered it, would be receiving hosannas today from The New York Times and The Washington Post, Bush may have done something politically catastrophic to his own presidency....
At that point, the excerpt runs out, and you need to use a free account to the NY Post to access it. Since none of the bugmenot accounts worked, I'm not going to bother as much as I'd like to learn exactly what JPod is referring to.