People forget, and they forget quickly. That's what those in power rely on. It's not too far-fetched an idea to think that the kind of mind control seen in 1984 could actually occur. As long as the information that's out there says one thing and no ...

However I voted for a president who claimed that he would prioritize dangers and respond to catastrophes.

This was potentially a big one, a very big one, this was known. And now it's not potentially any more.

I voted for leadership, one that would recogonize the "big 3" and even big 10 dangers and start responding. That didn't happen.

Our Republican leaders allowed politics as usual to determine priorities. We'd heard warnings about this type of choice before, focus on airports, not enough to chemical plants and ports. Always glossed over.

Gloss over some more. Yes many governments in the south are disgraceful. And yes these states which are usually Republican get more from the federal government than they pay in. But we were talking about a vital part of the nation here.

If you were running a business and you blew it like his, you'd be gone. 100 billion in tax dollars gone. If there had been some effort to prepare then it would be bad luck, but now it's irresponsibility.

You sound like a Washington parasite so you don't pay.

Just like you believe that if the terrorists or some other disastor hit your region the big shots will make sure military respurces are mobilized in minutes not days.

But I for one found out that the administration lied, they did not prepare us.

I despise those who are so smug they feel there is no need for such preparation so long as certain political interest are protected.

Have you no shame?

Yeah blast the local authorities from top to bottom, they deserve it. But this game of "they were bad so we aren't responsible for wat we did" is pathetic.

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Disclaimer: I do not endorse the views of the site linked above at all. However, they might have a few facts others don't (yet).

. . . which was apparently higher in that state under Bush vs. Clinton....

BTW, Bush is STILL the worst President in the history of this republic.

Alaska gets a $100 mil bridge to an island with 50 people on it…sure is a shame how liberals are spending our tax dollars.

Yep.

Oh -- you didn't know about Alaska's jurassic Sen. Ted Stevens, who makes even Robert Byrd look fiscally restrained?

I lived there, I've seen him in action. The only thing Stevens is conservative about is his own money.

Readers know I'm not fond of the blame game. I have been posting a few items that seriously question the...

Look - you can nickel and dime every spending bill, trying to find equivalents. That's all irrelevant. You know it and I know it.

It's quite simple: Bush is in charge of the Fed.

Bush cut funding to levees, specifically.

Bush said "No one expected the Levees to break." It turns out he was briefed repeatedly on just this possibility, by that well-known group of liberal whackos, the Army Corps of Engineers. (You'll go after Bush for this lie, right?)

More to the specific point at hand, which this is all a distraction from:

Bush accepted the commitment to take care of Louisiana, when he declared it a disaster area, at Governor Blanco's request.

Bush then continued with his vacation, only leaving his ranch to do photo ops. His incompetent and inexperienced appointee, Brown, only found out that people needed water in the Superdome, by watching cable news, days later.

We responded to the Indonesian tsunami quicker.

Military resources were standing by, waiting for Bush's call to go in. It could have come the hour after the hurricance left. It didn't come for days. Thousands of Americans DIED waiting for Bush to get off his ass and DO HIS JOB!

Bush failed utterly. If you as conservatives believe in accountability, you will stop making excuses for his criminal negligence.

Senators, both Republicans and Democrats, said Tuesday that they suspect price gouging as gasoline c

The feds’ real failures were in the response, not in the disaster’s happening at all.

Oh please, of course we can blame the feds for the disaster. After all, it is a well known fact that the federal government orders a specific number of hurricanes every year, and also specifies the intensity level of each hurricane.

That hive of arch-Conservative Rovian dupes, the Washington Post, has an article today that, in a sane world, would throttle the Bush-Gutted-Corp-of-Engineers-Flood-Control-Funding-To-Pay-For-Halliburton's-Iraqi-Conquest meme in its cradle. But in the...

Wow. Surprised they let you say that here. I thought the current GOP company line was to blame the response failures on state/local types, while simultaneously chiding anyone who says otherwise as finger-pointers playing the "blame game."

Someone must not have gotten the memo...

Congress survives on pork, and it just gets worse and worse. This sort of thing will continue to happen until there is a constitutional ammendment giving the President a line item veto.