Category Archives: Katrina

Right on cue

The media has been droning on and on about Katrina-related topics for the last week. We had the Democratic Party opportunists attempting to gain an advantage over the Republican majority in Congress. We’ve had news reports from networks suddenly interested in how much work has, or hasn’t, been accomplished in the wake of the devastation. We’ve even had a show on a certain meteorology-related channel talk about the challenges and successes the USPS had in getting the mail back up and running.

Sadly, it mostly seems to be propaganda.

Nancy and Harry vs. FEMA

Via the Mercury News, this AP story:

In a report entitled “Broken Promises,” House and Senate Democratic leaders described what they called “the failed response” of the administration since the hurricane hit.

Released Wednesday by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her Senate counterpart, Harry Reid, D-Nev., the report asserted that “thousands of families are still waiting” for FEMA trailers and that a significant proportion of money that FEMA has spent there “has been waste, fraud and abuse.”

Bush: Katrina recovery will take time – Associated Press

How, exactly, are they differentiating their own waste from the “waste, fraud, and abuse” they’re laying at FEMA’s feet?

This seems like a very dangerous game that they’re playing.

Who’s responsible?

I do have some opinions about the Katrina disaster, but there doesn’t seem to be much point. These are largely a reaction to far left ideologues who think, for some reason, it is the responsibility of the federal government to impose itself upon the sovereign state of Lousiana in order to evacuate New Orleans. I’m not at all convinced.
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