It appears Hillary Clinton is looking to attempt to capitalize politically on the death and destruction of Hurricane Katrina. The likely 2008 presidential candidate blasted away at the Bush administration on Sunday for what she said was its inadequate response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and called for a 9/11 Commission style "Katrina Commission" to investigate allegations of bungling.

KRT reports:

With many blaming the growing scope of Katrina's devastation on the Bush administration, Sen. Hillary Clinton called Sunday for a 9/11-style probe into how the federal government responded to the crisis.

"It has become increasingly evident that our nation was not prepared," Clinton, D-N.Y., said in a letter to Bush asking him to set up a "Katrina Commission."

"The slow pace of relief efforts in the face of a mounting death toll ... seems to confirm that our ability to respond to cataclysmic disasters has not been adequately addressed," she said.

While it's clear that government failed in many aspects from bottom to top, another commission similar to the horrible grandstanding "9/11 Commission" is utterly useless.

Retired bureaucrats investigating employed bureaucrats is pure folly.

Aaron at Pardon My English gets it right:

Another commission like the 9/11 Commission? How ironic. Let's recreate one failure to investigate another. We don't need another excuse to waste taxpayers' dollars on a pork-barrel commission that, if it is anything like the last commission, will ignore the most critical failure of them all. Another federally funded "Blame Bush" commission?

I don't think so. If there is to be an investigation, hire a private, non-partisan firm to do it. It will cost half as much, and take 1/3 the time to finish.

Good idea, but good luck. Politicians love "blue ribbon panels" and this one will be a farce.

--Cris Bergman