Re: No One Thought The Levees Would Be Breached?

On 1 Sep 2005 20:53:14 -0700, in talk.origins
"Andrew F. Heil" <andrewfheil2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<1125633194.880913.273710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> It will be interesting to see the results of the next approval poll.
>
>CBS released a poll tonight showing an overall job approval rating of
>41%, taken Monday thru Wednesday.
>
>The poll also asked for an assessment of his handling of the Katrina
>situation, starting on Tuesday (the question wasn't asked on Monday).
>The results? 54% approval, 13% disapproval. You can expect those
>numbers to sharply nosedive. From what I saw on CNN and MSNBC tonight,
>the media is generally savaging the response to the disaster. Some of
>the media were almost in tears. Even Scarborough was particularly
>harsh with the federal response, referring to it as a 'disgrace' and
>'amateur hour'.
>
>I suspect this is about to become a public relations catastrophe for
>the administration.

The problem is that it is only a public relations catastrophe for the
Bush Administration, while it's a real catastrophe -- because FEMA was
way too slow every step of the way -- for the poor victims of this
bureaucratic incompetence and the multidecade shortsightedness of those
who didn't want to bother spending a billion to keep the dikes from
collapsing.

Someone from the Army Corps of Engineers, lying for the Bush
Administration, said that the reason nothing had been done (this was
after the media reminded us that the budget had been cut) was because a
cost-benefit analysis had been done and it wasn't considered worthwhile
to repair the dikes. What a lie. Yes, the Corps of Engineers has plenty
to respond to, but it wasn't the Corps that decided this and it is
completely out of place for this clown to defend total incompetence --
and lie while doing it. Anyone doing the cost-benefit-risk analysis knew
that the right decision was to make major repairs to the dikes, possibly
zone them, and

If I understand correctly, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton share the
responsibility for neglecting the dikes. Bush II is exclusively
responsible for proving that he cannot put together a homeland security
agency that works.

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