Gustav Weakens

The reports from the hurricane folks are encouraging. It appears that Gustav has deteriorated pretty significantly. The south and east sides of the eye wall have disappeared due to an inflow of dry air, and that's the section that posed the biggest threat to New Orleans. It looks like they're in for a day of decent rain and some wind, but not the devastation it appeared they would get yesterday.

Hopefully this means the GOP Convention can return to the regular schedule on Tuesday. There will still be flooding rains in parts of Louisiana and Texas, but I don't think the situation will require the kind of deference the GOP gave it today.

The evacuation, as ordered and managed by Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, has appeared to be extremely successful. Something like 2 million people were removed from harm's way. The Obamessiah was pontificating that he hope we had "learned the lessons of Katrina". Well, yes we have. We got the incompetent Democrat governor out of Baton Rouge, and even Ray "School Bus" Nagin managed to look less foolish this time.

It's not over yet, but I think once things settle down it will be apparent that the Federal government's emergency plans, in coordination with State and Local officials, worked extremely well.

Democrats must be very disappointed.