Mayor Nagin's "Hole in the Ground"

The next few weeks will see a furious struggle to frame two important anniversaries, with the media spinning in overdrive to play up the importance of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and at the same time to downplay the significance of the five-year anniversary of September 11. The reasons are simple: Katrina helps Democrats, 9/11 helps President Bush and the GOP.

60 Minutes is already getting geared up, but Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin didn't help his cause - or the MSM's - with his quip to CBS's Byron Pitts that, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed....."