New Yorker‘s Remnick: “Suntanned and relaxed after a vacation so long that it would have shamed a French playboy, Bush reacted with fogged delinquency, as if he had been so lulled by his summer sojourn that he was not quite ready to acknowledge reality, let alone attempt to master it. His first view of the floods came, pitifully, theatrically, from the window of a low-flying Air Force One, and all the President could muster was, according to his press secretary, ‘It’s devastating. It’s got to be doubly devastating on the ground.’ The moment demanded clarity of mind and rigorous governance, and yet he could not summon them.”