Now the toilet is clogged

Oh, yeah, it is almost exactly the same to be a member of the U.S. White House Press Corp. and a resident of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

Now the toilet is clogged

First they put the White House press corps in a trailer.

And now the toilet is clogged.

What do the reporters who work closest to President Bush on a daily basis have in common with refugees from Hurricane Katrina?

The in-town “press pool,'' that small, revolving group of reporters and photographers assigned to follow the president each day on his official wanderings around the White House campus and in day-trips to destinations around town, does a lot of waiting between working.

And now that the press briefing room in the West Wing of the White House has been gutted for a potentially year-long renovation, the in-town pool has been relocated to a cold trailer -- white metal on the outside and woodlike-paneling on the inside -- parked just inside the guarded gates of the White House and Eisenhower Executive Office Building grounds on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Somehow, doesn't seem comparable, but I guess you only know what you know. Asshole.

Tags: media, /New_Orleans