sensitivity chip

Remember when Jennifer Aniston suggested, in her Vanity Fair interview, that Brad Pitt was missing a "sensitivity chip"? It's a pretty apt description of a few of the Republican leaders' responses to the flooding in the Gulf.

Speaker Denny Hastert suggesting that New Orleans wasn't all that worth saving. President Bush suggesting that Senator Trent Lott's experience of losing his house to the hurricane was in any way the same thing as the people who are currently homeless and destitute.

Who is writing these guys' talking points?