Gingrich Goes After Bush

Via, Blanton's and Ashton's, former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich (R-Ga), has voiced annoyance with administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina.

Gingrich labeled the relief efforts "sluggish" and called for the White House to appoint Rudy Giuliani the head of the disaster response. Gingrich believes that the administration's incompetence on Katrina has revealed the nation's vulnerabilities on homeland security.

"If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?"

Gingrich is rumored to have strong presidential ambitions for 2008. Attacking the administration's spending habits, loose organization, and integrity might not be a bad path to power for a man who appeared on the cover of Time as "Mr. Scrooge" in December of 1994.