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• New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on local radio: "After 9/11 we gave the president unprecedented powers to take care of New York and those other places.... You mean to tell me that a place where thousands of people and thousands more people are dying, we can't figure out [how to get them help]?" We'd be pissed he's appropriating our disaster, but the thing is: The dude's completely right.

• More Nagin on WWL Radio: "I don't want to see anybody to anymore more goddamn press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don't do another press conference until the resources are in this city." Naturally, Bush held a press conference this afternoon.

• And here's Bush at that presser, in Mobile, Ala.: "We got a lot of rebuilding to do.... The good news is — and it's hard for some to see it now — but out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast.... Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house — the guy lost his entire house — there's going to be fantastic house. I look forward to sitting on the porch." Says Wonk: "[H]ey, as long as Trent Lott is taken care of."

UPDATE: Wonkette has the full transcript of the Nagin radio interview. Read it. It's amazing.

Ray Nagin for President, Anderson Cooper for Secretary of Take No Shit [Wonkette]
Bush Sees the Bright Side [Wonkette]