That Condi sure is amazing in general, though. She can pull the drowning from the river just by taking a phone call from a foreign nation who might be able to send a rescue team or a check in just a day or so! Wow!

Seriously, in the face of national disaster, who the hell looks to the State Department, and also, do world leaders really have that much trouble getting Bush himself on the phone without a proxy from State to hand it to him? (Here's your chance to make a witty ripost about how Bush is too dummmm to pick up a telephone!)