Is Nashville Going Blue?

For reasons that I only vaguely comprehend, country music stars who give a yodel about politics are reliably supporters of President Bush. Well, scratch Tim McGraw and Faith Hill from that list.

McGraw and Hill yesterday blasted the Hurricane Katrina cleanup effort, with Hill calling the slow progress in Louisiana and Mississippi as "embarrassing" and "humiliating." (McGraw is from Louisiana and Hill from Mississippi. Or maybe it's the other way around.)

According to ABC News, McGraw lit into the president, who coincidentally was in New Orleans, saying that

When you have people dying because they're poor and black or poor and white, or because of whatever they are -- if that's a number on a political scale -- then that is the most wrong thing. That erases everything that's great about our country.

There's no reason why someone can't go down there who's supposed to be the leader of the free world . . . and say, 'I'm giving you a job to do and I'm not leaving here until it's done. And you're held accountable, and you're held accountable, and you're held accountable.

This is what I've given you to do, and if it's not done by the time I get back on my plane, then you're fired and someone else will be in your place.