There's no need to bomb the levee system to cause the flooding when there were plenty of structural and design deficiencies that were more than sufficient to cause the flooding as the flawed levees gave way in the storm.

I'm not saying that LA's pols were more venal and shortsighted than those of other states, in this instance at least. It's just more fun to spend on bells and whistles than on long-term disaster prevention. "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

You have disqualified yourself from speaking credibly on this topic.

Our delegation has been trying to do this for years and requests have fallen on deaf ears.

Now over 1000 people are dead, a half a million homeless and a major metropolitan city is in ruins.

For the record, Wizbang has been all over this since before the breaches in the floodwalls were even closed. It was obvious to anyone with any knowledge of the situation, we just had to wait for confirmation. Again, the local...

From your last paragraph in your comment, I assume you mean that the Clinton Administration "prefered voter friendly short term to less glamorous long term spending" They were in power 10 years ago and had authority to insure that tax dollars were spent wisely.

Oh well, another liberal boondoggle.

As I think was discussed ad nauseam at OTB and elsewhere, there's absolutely no player in the Katrina disaster who comes off well. The politicians at all levels preferred voter-friendly short-term spending to less glamorous long-term spending.

Trust me, you're in way uncharted territory on this one.

I'll explain via an update. (or maybe new post) But in the mean time, please read the link I have about the MSM being strangely silent.

It will explain it a lot more.

Other than the rabid tin-foil hat crowd, I don't think anyone seriously believes that the levees broke because some governemtn black-ops squad blew them up to flood black neighborhoods and save white neighborhoods. On the other hand, the evidence is...