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While we’re on subject of race and class . . .By JONAH GOLDBERG FOR REASONS good and bad — mostly bad — the media establishment has decided that Hurricane Katrina should be a “teaching moment” about race and class issues. One might be more inclined to think this is a teaching moment about our preparedness to respond to a major terrorist attack — presumably Osama Bin Laden isn’t boning up on his Barbara Ehrenreich because of the fallout in New Orleans. But, hey, that’s what the cognoscenti have decided. And that’s OK, I guess. One of the remarkable things about...

<p>The disastrous federal response to Katrina exposes a record of incompetence, misjudgment and ideological blinders that should lead to serious doubts that the Bush administration should be allowed to continue in office.</p> <p>When taxpayers have raised, borrowed and spent $40 billion to $50 billion a year for the past four years for homeland security but the officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot find their own hands in broad daylight for four days while New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast swelter, drown and die, it is time for them to go.</p>