Anniversary of Katrina: A Reminder of What Else is Wrong with America
By bluegal Tuesday Aug 28, 2007 3:20pm
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From an editorial in today's San Francisco Chronicle:
The mismanagement, missed opportunities and suffering that is the legacy of Katrina still matter because the victims of the storm were - and are - facing the same problems that the people of America are facing. We're talking about poorly maintained public infrastructure. (The Minneapolis bridge collapse, though responsible for only 13 deaths, created a national sense of deja vu.) We're talking about communities with poor access to health care, decent schools, jobs that pay a living wage. We're talking about insurance companies that seem all too happy to take your premium - whether it's for homeowners' insurance or health care - and then run away when the bills come due. Most important, we're talking about the lack of public leaders who have the ability to lead, or at the very least to take responsibility for their failures instead of looking for someone else, or something else, to blame.
Also the absolute "don't-miss" interview of the day with Dr. Anna Pou, who was accused of murdering nine patients in a New Orleans hospital wracked by Katrina. A grand jury declined to indict her. (h/t Make Them Accountable)
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And now Bush wants another 50 billion dollars for Iraq.
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Is Chimpy brain damaged???
How does that skidmark visit that area and strut around like the government actually did a decent job?
Is Chimpy so wasted on coke, alcohol, and holy water that he actually thinks he's done something worth taking credit for???
and the fukkknuckle is there again for a goddamn foto-op! :(
Craig?
Today seeing so many of those two year old pictures down there brought back all the anger and fear for the people. Then they showed pictures of the ninth ward today and aside from being dry, many things had not changed. Abandon homes, windows broken out and weeds several feet high in the yards. It was just so sad and amazing that what they were showing was in our country two years after the storm passed through.
Bush was talking progress and how the future would be better right before he hopped on his plane and headed out, once again leaving them on their own to try to figure out how to rebuild and reclaim what they lost.
Bush tells New Orleans: `We understand'
Right sure you do. Uh huh.
Of all the case this DA could have bought in this cesspool of corruption
called New Orleans he thought he could score big time with this one.
Can you imagine what this guy is like? Can you imagine how corrupt
a DA in NO has to be just to get the damn job?
Less money for infrastructure means more money for Bush/Cheney war machine.
He was in NOLA for more than a photo-op.
He thought it a proper time to push his bullshit about privatizing schools for fun and profits.
From Firedoglake, earlier in the day:
President Bush, spoke in New Orleans today at a charter school on the second anniversary of Katrina’s landfall in the Gulf Coast region of the United States of America. The President of the United States just used an appearance in New Orleans on the Katrina anniversary to push a school choice agenda for his many privitization school-for-profit crony donors. I kid you not. (Christy Hardin Smith)
How can we spend a billion a week in Iraq and we can't put a new levy to protect an American City??????
More than anything else, this is what angers me the most about Bush. Not only is he corrupt and incompetent but he is a loser as a human being.
Nothing went wrong or was overlooked or mismanaged in New Orleans
It was a successful "realtime" exercise in police state powers.
So let's hear, one more time, the "progressive" reasons why impeachment is off the table: it's unrealistic, the votes aren't there, takes too much time, it would detract from more important things to do, it's divisive & vengeful, etc. etc.
Meanwhile N.O. is the quintessential example of criminal negligence.
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
Actual Bush quote: "...and this town (New Orleans) is coming back...heh heh"
What an absolute dipshit
Impeachin' is hard work. Real hard.
Chimpy is to New Orleans as the yellow ribbon magnets on SUVs are to the troops.
milquetoast @ 11:
Even though you're suggesting a coordinated criminal act (what's that called when two or more people work together to break the law?), I agree with you 100%.
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
`We understand' - but we don't give a dam nor a damn.
jdw @ 10:
He's human?
The Truth Hurts @ 2:
You've just discovered the secret incredients of the WH kool-aid.
Also don't forget to add the Skidmarks
That flag will get you busted in Asheville NC
They use to say you could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Apparently the case againstDr. Pou was so transparently bogus that even a grand jury balked . It is, of course, easy to identify actual murderers in New Orleans. Look for guys wearing the Medal of Freedom and the "Heckuva Good Job" tee shirt.
That case of Dr. Pou is interesting. I encourage everyone to read it. It's more of the "right to lifers" who will imprison anyone who performs an abortion or act of euthanasia, yet have absolutely no problem with capital punishment or killing those with a darker skin color.
It was not mismanagement it was out right stealing from the poor, what the Republican Party does best.
Our own countries infrastructure is not important to this (republicans) group of spoiled rotten over-indulgeing clutenous inbreds. They don't care for your needs only for themselvse and there closest constituents. The people of the US are just fodder for the games of the rich. We should be more than happy to pay more and suffer more so they may continue there own selfish pleasures. They see the country falling apart around them
and ask why aren't the liitle people helping themselves. The tax cuts that they have stolen for themselves does not come into the equation. They are sad shallow creatures who only see what can be taken instead of the more glorious position of what can i do to give back to the people that i have taken so much from.
Especially the BUSH CRIME FAMILY.
I hope the people of this country will Not be FOOLED TWICE (wink,wink) and will THINK TWICE (wink,wink) before ever voting for a BUSH or a Republican again.
In fact i would rather put-up with all the Presidential affairs (indiscretions) in the world than have my country go through what its gone through the last seven years. People who use the books of GOD and the CONSTITUTION to gain power and then shit all over there meaning once they've obtained it have a special place reserved for them.
Think about this...Maybe God has done all of this to our country in SPITE of the republicans and Bush using the books of god for their own profit and gain.
As usual all the people who preach the ten comandments don't want to look at that one.
That interview was heartwrenching...they should be giving her a medal, not suing her..let's hope the civil suits are thrown out of court
My contribution to the 2nd anniversary Katrina "blogswarm" for anyone’s bemusement. It’s interesting to note, as I did, that out of all the abuse being heaped on Bush, Gonzo and Rove by right wingers like Viguerie, no one seems to have a problem with how Bush handled Katrina.
I'm just surprised that not many major blogs have written about this. I'm glad C&L at least mentioned it.
It would be an interesting item to compare the response of this administration to that of the Mexican government before, during and after hurricanes Katrina, a Category 3 or 4, and Dean, a Category 5 hurricane. It might even be newsworthy. For starters, the Mexican President left a meeting in Canada to attend to things in Mexico. Bush stayed on vacation. The military in Mexico was evacuating people before the hurricane struck. There could be a lot of interesting comparisons.
If I saw Bush and his gang of criminals in N.O. posing for photo-ops, they would all get an obscene earful from me. Especially his wrinkled whore of a mother.
IMPEACH!
I would vote for a pile of pig shit before I voted for another republican.
Here's to the memory of Tuba Fats!
We miss you.
People come and listen to New Orleans
New Orleans, she is sitting and waiting.
waiting for what...?
why...?
She does not know.
wondering...
why did the wind
blow her way?
People when she speaks do you hear her?
New Orleans pleads for your ear.
Will you listen?
Will you come to her?
she is wondering...
will the winds of change
blow her way?
peace,
-sleeper
just saw on the news the war monger pretend prez in a photo op with the survivors of katrina. reminded me of super bowl champs or NBA winners or Stanley Cup top dogs being called to the white house by the pretend prez so that he could congratulate them on their feat. great stuff. don't they know what he did to them to their homes to their relatives. when he called, they should have spit and not only no but HELL NO.
Didnt Chimpy Mc Fuckup say that New Orleans was gonna be the biggest reconstruction project ever for America? Should have known he was lying. His lips were moving.
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true historians have yet to really really articulate the problems created by Katrina, New Orleans, and the events leading up to it. long story short, at a time when more/bigger government was created to fight an invisible enemy, an entire US city was destroyed by nature, while soooo many more/bigger governmental bureaucrats just sat by... and continue to sit by... and watch it rot.
New Orleans is going to turn into the biggest ghetto in the world if nobody does anything to care about it for longer than once a year during the anniversary.
Katrina is America's shame... yep.
Bush told New Orleans: "We understand." (We don't give a shit about you, since you're poor and black, but we understand you're screwed. Stay the course.)
For god's sake get real. My heart goes out to all those who suffered through or died in Katrina. Federal an local governments should feel nothing but shame but let's get serious about preventing another disaster like this. New Orleans is sinking, the barrier islands disappearing and to many prominent engineering experts the city is as vulnerable as ever to catastrophic flooding. Read this months National Geographic or other articles describing the mess. New Orleans was built on one engineering mistake after another. Let's get people out of the FEMA trailers and help them relocate, but not back behind some levee that will inevitably fail. Somehow its perceived as an affront to Gulf coast residents who understandably cling to what they call home. But most leaders are living in denial. Its just too politically unpopular to face the facts.
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