Mr. President, that is what we in the reality based community call a lie

Yes. You are a liar.

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached. And as a result, much of New Orleans is flooded. And now we are having to deal with it and will."

"I also make absolutely clear to everyone that there is the potential for a large loss of life in the coastal areas from the storm surge" and "I don't think anybody can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not, but that's obviously a very very grave concern."

The first quote is from an interview the liar in chief did with ABC a few days after Hurricane Katrina hit. You know, the one he did after he left Crawford, played guitar in San Diego, and flew over the devastation in Air Force One. The second and third quotes are from a meteorologist named Max Mayfield, and they're from a briefing that he gave the liar in chief only 19 hours before Katrina hit. Crooks and Liars has the video, which is being distributed by the AP.

The profoundly incurious liar in chief failed to ask any questions during the briefing, which even shows Michael Brown attempting to act like someone with a brain.

Of course, Karl and the boys need to respond. During the congressional hearings, questions were asked about a meeting that supposedly took place before the meeting on video. There's more, in a well-presented piece at The Moderate Voice. It is a response filled with more lies, deceit, and a pathetic attempt at covering their asses, which requires them to lie to congress, the American people, and to history in different ways at different times.

I still have yet to find words that convey my rage at the abysmal and deplorable failures of leadership that took place related to that hurricane. Mr. President, the danger was known to you and yet you did nothing. You promised help that didn't come. You ignored advice from those who you are supposed to trust. You gave platitudes to the American public that you knew were bold-faced lies. Would immediate action hours before the hurricane have prevented loss of life in their entirety? No, of course not. But how many lives could have been saved? One? A few? We'll never know, of course. However, I think an appropriate punishment for you, sir, in the afterlife, should their be one, would be for you to be eternally waterboarded by those who did die whom you could have saved.

Liar.