Two years ago, KO was pissed off at the mishandling of the Katrina disaster, and went off on a rant about the incompetence of the Bush WH. This event was what catapulted his show to the top.

thanks for continuing to bring the issue of NOLA and katrina to light. there still isn't any resolution for the poor people down there. we need to keep that issue on the forefront even when/if we get a democratic president.

I'm no Donald Trump fan but if he were in charge of getting NO back on it's feet as a volunteer project working only with and for the locals, I bet he could get the job done and fast.

Did Chimpy think he was going to be greeted as a liberator???

He pisses all over the locals...ignores their needs...then jets in for a quick photo-op (I always love when he tearfully embraces some poor black child. Always a winner).

He expected roses to be tossed in his path? He's a bigger dumb fuck than I thought.

bush only does photo ops. he offers lip service only. when it comes to putting up the promised funds, he is no where to be found, except that he is lining his and his corporate buddies pockets. bush should be drawn and quartered they way they used to do villians like him.

Bush should have vowed to spend all his vacation time in New Orleans as a show of empathy and to spur the government agencies involved to perform.

Bush's return to NOLA for a photo op is just like putting salt on an open wound. Katrina, along with so many other events, was one of Bush's biggest failures and the entire nation knows it. Going back to NOLA now will only remind people of that.

Can anyone, especially a Republican, explain to me what the attraction is with Chimpy?
Even a Republican must look at this shithead and think, "We can...and should have...done better." How do look at this guy and throw your support behind him for 2 terms? How do you not look at him and seriously question whether his mind is all there.

It's got to be more than "he's down-to-earth and I'd love to have a beer with him." Even that doesn't fly, because you'd have nothing to talk about. What subjects could Chimpy discuss beyond baseball and how to snort coke?

I just don't get it. Please someone explain the appeal.

bush should be forced to live in one of FEMA's formaldehyde trailers

and michael chertoff should be fired, and disgraced (well, actually, he already disgraced himself)

This seems a little simplified. I would imagine that the reason for the monies not being spent has more to do with Bureaucratic red tape than anything else.

I mean, bush is lazy and stupid, but he's not a Monster as this video would imply. Like everything else, he probably just didn't put together a good plan (or any plan at all for that matter) for disseminating the money and now it's stuck in paper work.

I'd like to share with you guys my "tribute" to Bush's disgraceful handling of Katrina: THE HOUSE OF THE FALLEN SON

Good one, Don. Very good one! I'm not sure too many here will remember the Animals. But I do. :)

I watched the video from live leak. It was heart breaking. I wonder what happened to the couple filming the flood. I wonder what happened to their dogs that were on the roof with them. I wonder what happened to all those big, beautiful homes.
I wonder.....I wonder.....I wonder.
GW doesn't wonder. He goes for his photo to be taken with some of the NOLA locals and says PROGRESS IS BEING MADE. What a jerk he is!!

mikeB, a president can cut any red tape he wants. he just has to want.
it's not just nola that bush has shortchanged. his admin. is often pledging money or support for something at a press conf. and later they deliver none or only part of the 'help' or there are restrictions on the 'gift'.
i'm thinking of the tsnami relief they offered and the 'no child left' big promises.

KANYE WAS RIGHT!!
www.colorofchange.org

I read a blog post this morning and the poster had been in another country when Katrina hit. She was watching cnn international and saw all the horror. The next day she was on a bus going somewhere when an american man sat down beside her. She mentioned what was happening in NO. The American man hadn't had tv at the hotel where he stayed so he knew nothing about Katrina. He started to sob as he said his mama and grandma were living in NO. He kept wondering out loud how his mama and grandma were. The lady's destination was reached so she exited the bus. She said to this day she wonders about that man's mama and grandma.

Don, now that great old song will be playing in my head the rest of the day. That's not a bad thing.

Samson- @ 23:

The Truth Hurts @ 16:

Can anyone, especially a Republican, explain to me what the attraction is with Chimpy?
Even a Republican must look at this shithead and think, "We can...and should have...done better." How do look at this guy and throw your support behind him for 2 terms? How do you not look at him and seriously question whether his mind is all there.

It's got to be more than "he's down-to-earth and I'd love to have a beer with him." Even that doesn't fly, because you'd have nothing to talk about. What subjects could Chimpy discuss beyond baseball and how to snort coke?

I just don't get it. Please someone explain the appeal.

i think part of it is stubborness, and the fact that he really pisses of liberals.

but, deeper, i think it has to do with the fact that a lot of the public's ire is focused on bush himself, versus the public actually focusing on the complete, and miserable failure that is neoliberal economic policy. a convenient distraction, if you will, while the uber-rich stake claim on the world.

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dear samson says. yes!
the republicans learned some time ago that it is much easier to get their agenda done in the background while the baffoon puppet takes the public bashing. course even that is not too public--he still has lots of insulation.
i think this happened with g. ford. he was ridiculed as a clown and kinda was but he got away with pardoning nixon--who cared. after that they openly put forth the biggest most easily controlled goof they could get--ronald raygun. then george the first who played the buffoon but was no dummy being a former u.n. ambassador, head of the cia, gov of tex, member of state house tex, etc, etc. trouble is his progeny while wearing the family colors really IS an idiot. must break daddy's heart but heck he DID get to be president.

I am sorry for the pain of the people of New Orleans, but the fact is that New Orleans should never be rebuilt. You simply cannot protect an area as big as the New Orleans area that sits 10-15 feet below sea level. It would take construction that would protect an area during a category 5 hurricane to make the construction even reasonable. The problem is that it is an engineering impossibility, given the specific geological structure of the Mississippi Delta, to construct anything that could hold up to the power of such a storm. The only parts of the town that are recoverable are those areas that are naturally 20 feet or more above sea level.

The next hundred year storm will not be in a hundred years. In fact statistically speaking the next hundred year storm will happen within ten years. The good feelings or the hopes of people to recover their losses aside; the reality is that we should write most of what was once New Orleans off the map and return to the city layout of almost one hundred and fifty years ago.

rain @ 26:

I watched the video from live leak. It was heart breaking. I wonder what happened to the couple filming the flood. I wonder what happened to their dogs that were on the roof with them. I wonder what happened to all those big, beautiful homes.
I wonder.....I wonder.....I wonder.
GW doesn't wonder. He goes for his photo to be taken with some of the NOLA locals and says PROGRESS IS BEING MADE. What a jerk he is!!

He's a real jerk with a smirk. :)
the real bush :( notice that he has been cought with the :( more lately

Patthemokey @ 38:

I am sorry for the pain of the people of New Orleans, but the fact is that New Orleans should never be rebuilt. You simply cannot protect an area as big as the New Orleans area that sits 10-15 feet below sea level. It would take construction that would protect an area during a category 5 hurricane to make the construction even reasonable. The problem is that it is an engineering impossibility, given the specific geological structure of the Mississippi Delta, to construct anything that could hold up to the power of such a storm. The only parts of the town that are recoverable are those areas that are naturally 20 feet or more above sea level.

The next hundred year storm will not be in a hundred years. In fact statistically speaking the next hundred year storm will happen within ten years. The good feelings or the hopes of people to recover their losses aside; the reality is that we should write most of what was once New Orleans off the map and return to the city layout of almost one hundred and fifty years ago.

i am not a civil engineer, nor a NOLA authority... but I don't think what you said is correct.

first off, i believe that the netherlands have the same issues as NOLA--hydro-geologically (i am just going to make up words, sorry) speaking.

the difference is that the corp of engineers and the federal govt have failed to construct a levee system that is actual functional when put to the test.

also, consider this: NOLA was not destroyed by katrina, NOLA was destroyed by the failure of the levees.

from what i have seen, the low countries levee/dike system is state-of-the-art and if we were to deploy something like that in the new orleans the danger of a repeat would be radically diminished--if not eliminated.

i don't think we should give up on NOLA, i think that the answer is out there (in the netherlands, actually) and all that it would take is the political courage to make it happen.

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"Your levee system doesn't appear to have been designed as a system. It's designed in a very haphazard way. One structure built one way, one built another, " said Jurjen Battjes, a professor emeritus of engineering at the Technical University of Delft and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers team investigating the New Orleans levees.

"They can move vehicles on Mars. Why should your system fail because of a wall collapsing or because an operator left the pumping station? "

http://www.nola.com/speced/ruinandrecovery/t-p/index.ssf?/speced/ruinand...

... but me and Laura, we don't live here... so we can tell you what's up for you. Thanks President PoopyPants for yet another wonderfully stupid ignorant rambling.

Biggus Diggus @ 12:

Bush should have vowed to spend all his vacation time in New Orleans as a show of empathy and to spur the government agencies involved to perform.

Yeah, but that would be misinterpreted as him caring and quite frankly his actions bespeak that... he doesn't care about anyone but himself. It's that plain and simple. He's a sociopath.

Jenny'O @ 36:

Samson- @ 23:

The Truth Hurts @ 16:

Can anyone, especially a Republican, explain to me what the attraction is with Chimpy?
Even a Republican must look at this shithead and think, "We can...and should have...done better." How do look at this guy and throw your support behind him for 2 terms? How do you not look at him and seriously question whether his mind is all there.

It's got to be more than "he's down-to-earth and I'd love to have a beer with him." Even that doesn't fly, because you'd have nothing to talk about. What subjects could Chimpy discuss beyond baseball and how to snort coke?

I just don't get it. Please someone explain the appeal.

i think part of it is stubborness, and the fact that he really pisses of liberals.

but, deeper, i think it has to do with the fact that a lot of the public's ire is focused on bush himself, versus the public actually focusing on the complete, and miserable failure that is neoliberal economic policy. a convenient distraction, if you will, while the uber-rich stake claim on the world.

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dear samson says. yes!
the republicans learned some time ago that it is much easier to get their agenda done in the background while the baffoon puppet takes the public bashing. course even that is not too public--he still has lots of insulation.
i think this happened with g. ford. he was ridiculed as a clown and kinda was but he got away with pardoning nixon--who cared. after that they openly put forth the biggest most easily controlled goof they could get--ronald raygun. then george the first who played the buffoon but was no dummy being a former u.n. ambassador, head of the cia, gov of tex, member of state house tex, etc, etc. trouble is his progeny while wearing the family colors really IS an idiot. must break daddy's heart but heck he DID get to be president.

exactly, Jenny'O. sometimes i think of our dear ruling elite as a strange, genetically modified, doug henning-octopus-type creature. and 8 armed parlor magician, if you will. with sleight of hand, illusions, and tricks our attention is made to be focused in the area of least harm

Busholini absolutely has THE biggest pair of balls of anyone I can think of. How dare he show his face in NOLA where reconstruction is about on par with the "progress" in Iraq.

What a fuck he is!

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Better days lie ahead for that city, eh? Tremendous news! So when do George Bush and co. get put on trial?

500 billion to fund the illegal Iraq war/occupation and most of it goes to no-bid mercenary contractors who do nothing but steal millions everyday from the US Treasury -- with Bush & Co's approval and encouragement -- and they leave the people of New Orleans to die, take away their homes, make it so hard to get any any help that 1 million people are dispersed with no help at all... This is ethnic cleansing Bush/Cheney style and we the people need to stand up and take back our country!

Check out the following article to see just how badly we've all been screwed... http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083007C.shtml

Compare Katrina with Dean...we knew Katrina was coming and so did Mexico with Dean. The Mexican President left a conference in Canada to fly back and make sure things went ok. Bush stayed on vacation. The Mexican military went in before the hurricane and evacuated people who didn't have a way out. We didn't do anything. It bears watching to see just how they fare in the next couple years. We know how we fared.
Sure, New Orleans is vulnerable, everyone knows that. But there has been years of neglect concerning the levees and that fact crosses all political boundaries. But the readiness of our government and the follow-up after the damage could have been light-years better. And that happened on the Bush watch. I used to live there, it was a beautiful city and the people were terrific, not what the media would like you to believe.
The city should be rebuilt and the problems fixed. Period.