By BOB HERBERT
A Page 1 article in The Times on Tuesday carried the following headline: “Liberal Hopes Ebb in Post-Storm Poverty Debate.”
I might have started laughing if the subject weren’t so serious. Who in their right mind - liberal, moderate, Rotarian, contrarian - could have possibly thought that George W. Bush and his G.O.P. Wild Bunch (Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Tom DeLay et al.) had suddenly seen the light (”Eureka! We’ve been wrong!”) and become serious about engaging the problem of poverty in America?
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Bob Herbert Bush Poverty Katrina
