An Imperfect Storm

(With apologies to Sebastian Junger): Hurricane Irene is now a memory, with all that is left to do being make repairs and tally costs. Weather prediction remains a flawed science (though some who can not foresee a hurricane's path or strength insist man is altering the climate sufficiently to destroy the earth), and thankfully though still killing more than twenty and doing billions of dollars worth of damage, the hurricane was much less destructive than the so-called experts forecast it to be and the political class warned about. The discrepancy in Hurricane Irene worked toward humanity's favor and for that we must be thankful, but what disturbed me were Democrat politicians on the Sunday morning policy wonk shows politicizing the storm. Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley was the first partisan hack I saw trying to contrast how on the ball Barack Hussein Obama was with the last President Bush's Hurricane Katrina "flyover". This political attack line was then followed by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. The effort to turn a natural event into raw partisan political capital was disgusting. Hurricane Irene with credit to God's grace was no Hurricane Katrina.