Demagogue

Jack Kemp, the former Republican congressman and the party's 1996 vice-presidential nominee, was quoted in today's Washington Post in a post-Katrina story:

"There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large."

But, Jack, how can you say such a thing? As Laura Bush explained to us all, until Katrina it "really was not possible" for the administration to discuss poverty-related issues.