What can Powerline possibly be thinking?

There is a remarkable string of posts at Powerline that attempt to make the case that the media, oh, excuse me, the MSM, along with it's puppet master "The Far Left" are to blame for the perception that the Bush Administration's response to Katrina was slow and ineffective.

They pat themselves on the back for being brave enough to criticize the Administration for...failing to respond forcefully enough to the "unfair attacks from the far left." Yet they witness tens of thousands of desperate U.S. Citizens wait for help while their government looks like a cross between the Keystone cops and a Chinese Fire Drill led by a president that compares unfavorably to Nero, and cannot register a genuine critical complaint about the competence with which the Bush team has conducted itself during this crisis.

This is simply astounding. It's astounding enough that they immediately politicize any criticism of Bush by simply asserting that all charges are manufactured by the MSM, Democrats and the Left - which are all the same thing in their eyes. But it is even more astounding that they can witness this tragic parade of incompetence, witness it be denounced with outrage by the left, the right, the center, the up, the down, damn near everybody - and still - still - not demand accountability from their leader. Where does the buck stop if not with Bush?

It makes me wonder what would have to happen to spoil the taste of the koolaid.

ps. What's wrong with this picture? Hint: Is it ever ok for the person in charge of leading relief efforts for the largest natural disastor in this nation's history to claim he's out of the loop?