I had to point out this post at Pam's House Blend, not because Rick Santorum is so very entertaining, but because of his astounding level of idiocy. In short, lil Ricky is now blaming the National Weather Service for providing insufficent warning of Katrina (ostensibly because they're too busy providing data to other sources at no additional charge).
U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is suggesting that early mistakes in predicting the path of Hurricane Katrina may be a symptom of lost focus at the National Weather Service. Santorum, who introduced legislation earlier this year to curb the output of government weather forecasters, says tracking life-threatening weather must be central to what the agency is doing.
Asked about Katrina by WITF, Santorum described weather service warnings for Florida, where the storm first made landfall, as “not sufficient." Santorum’s bill instructs the government to abandon weather prediction and data reporting efforts that duplicate private-sector activity. He came under fire when it was revealed that the head of State College-based AccuWeather, which would benefit, has given his campaigns thousands of dollars.
An example of an NWS insufficient warning for Katrina:
