September 9, 2005 6:30 am

Post-Katrina Doublethought

The planted axiom is that the New Orleans levee has been for years a national pustule that George Bush refused to lance.

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Then-President George W. Bush with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (left) and Vice Admiral of the Coast Guard and official in charge of of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Thad Allen as he speaks following a tour of the French Quarter in New Orleans, La., September 12, 2005.

Larry Downing/Reuters

Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s column responds to liberal columnists’ blaming the Bush administration for the failure of the New Orleans levees.

The war against stable thought blazes on, the objective being to put the blame on the Bush administration for what happened in New Orleans.