One Year Later: Reflections on White House Handling of Katrina

By Jennifer Loven | August 29, 2006

  • August 29, 2006 at 12:07 pm
    Vlad says:
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    Yes commrades the article is correct. We find no faults whatsoever with Commrade Blanco and Commrade Nagin. Once again the state has worked flawlessly to provide for its peasants er.. citizens.

    Your commrade, Vlad

  • August 29, 2006 at 12:48 pm
    rascal says:
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    With mayor and governor incompetent, local dike boards irresponsible, so the inevitable happens, and it is all the federal government\’s fault! And then with the poor behavior and decisions they made, they come whining to the rest of us to bail them out, and criticize us for not overcoming their own refusal to act promptly!

  • August 29, 2006 at 12:56 pm
    Katrino says:
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    The Coast Guard rescued 33,000 people during and after the storm. The Commander in Chief is in charge of the Coast Guard the last time that I looked.

    By the way, Mississippi is in a lot better shape than Louisiana. Why? Democrats run Louisiana and New Orleans, Republicans run Mississippi: could there be a connection?

  • August 29, 2006 at 1:40 am
    jj says:
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    How can you say they were incompetent? They had busses to move people and they didn\’t even move the busses. They had pre-knowledge and didn\’t use the info to prepare and they have been given billions of dollars but haven\’t used it to fix the problem. I think incompetent is a compliment.

  • August 29, 2006 at 2:50 am
    1who knows says:
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    Republican crapheads were spending money killing people in Iraq instead of securing those dikes you freaks! You should seee New Orleans now its still a mess cause Bush wont release the federal money it will take to rebuild and doesnt have the guts to say why. Take responcibility, then TAKE A BEATING IN THE POLLS YOU REPUBLICAN WHIMPS!!!! Who hoo, look at the numbers!!! You are gonna get your buts kicked!! Haha……Rebublicans are a dying breed, remember no one likes rich tax evading war mongers, get it?

  • August 29, 2006 at 3:25 am
    Katrino says:
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    That\’s what we need more of, rational debate.

    Hundreds of millions of federal dollars, allocated to repair and maintain those dikes years before the hurricane, never got used for that purpose. Why? Because Louisiana is one of the most heavily Democrat, and therefore corrupt, states in the union.

    As for dragging the Iraq war into a debate about storm cleanup: we are killing people in Iraq indeed, and we will, I hope, continue killing people there until there are no more terrorists, even if it takes 200 years. I guess that you would rather put the terrorists on food stamps than kill them.

    If you don\’t like it here, you can always move to Cuba where everyone is a liberal -except for the political prisoners.

  • August 29, 2006 at 3:37 am
    1who knows says:
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    Oh lord Katrino, you think there are terorists in Iraq? There never were b4 we got there. No wmd either. Let me ask you this, if you were an evil terrorist, who hates america wouldnt you just pick up your little strap on bombs and go to Mexico, then just calmly walk over the boarder to our presidents home state un touched?? Duh. If the terrorists want us so bad they could have at least made a little noise by now in the US since 2001, but nope, not even one little sucide bomb from a sleeper cell. And as far as voting fraud goes, thats how Gee Dub got his job to begin with, but you know that already. And as far as corruption goes, Democrats and Rubups are equally corrupt, because they are both controlled by corporations. Get a clue kids. How long can you play the Democrat Republicans game? None of the international power elite care about any of us, but they controll the media and the corparations and the laws. Vote independant, and never trust the mainstream media.

  • August 29, 2006 at 3:47 am
    Katrino says:
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    Al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was in Iraq two years before we invaded. Abu Nadal was murdered in Iraq the week before we invaded. He had been there for twenty yeras. Saddam was paying suicide bombers\’ families $25k for murdering Jews. WMD? Saddam gassed thousands of Kurds, he had rockets banned by the cease-fire agreement that ended Gulf War I, and we have found hundreds of canisters of Sarin and mustard gas.

    Now that you know the truth, if you repeat your stupid liberal arguments against the war again, you are a conscious liar instead of just an ignorant fool. Unless of course, you are already a conscious liar.

  • August 29, 2006 at 3:53 am
    Ricardo says:
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    The government should help those who are attempting to restore their property in spite of the fact that they had plenty of
    money for creole food, cigarettes and drugs had no insurance of any kind.
    Those who bitterly complain of no help and who have made no efforts to begin either restoration or rebuilding are examples of our societal malaise. The Good Lord (and government) should only assist those who demonstrate they want to help themselves. While some are doing that a great majority including the mayor of New Orleans, just ***** and complain
    Reaching adulthood for some is an impossible task.

  • August 29, 2006 at 4:16 am
    media mogul says:
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    Dubya careens his tax-paid 747 over devastated areas on an antiseptic sight-seeing tour a year ago, fifteen days late, using so much fuel it is close to dumping the tanks. LBJ was there on the ground with the smelly, dirty \”little people\” with a flasklight in his face ten times quicker than that during a prior hurricane.

    Dubya\’s mother goes to see refugees in the Astrodome in Houston and utters the most out of touch outrageously insensitive, patrician remarks (see Spike Lee\’s new movie on New Orleans–it\’s on film–no discussion or debate possible). She later gives $25,000 to a \”charity\” that in fact must be used by the beneficiary to buy her son Neil\’s software for use in Houston schools (which the school board just happened to want to buy). Neil\’s backers are–you guessed it–Saudi Arabians. And never mind about Neil\’s lurid divorce, the related paternity suit and all the personal laundry exposed.

    The ironies and contradictions surrounding this family pile up so fast you need wings to stay above them. Give me Billy and Billy Beer any time.

    And Bush is not even the generator of the most serious problems–Cheney and his group are. We are so tar-babied into Iraq that Hezbollah and Iran are walking all over us. Can you say \”real terrorists\”? And didn\’t the 9-11 crowd come mostly from–you guessed it–Saudi Arabia? Better to have kept the balance of power in the region like Daddy said (and did).

    Time for people of practicality and answers not of (an exclusionary, persecuting, not persecuted Christian) faith. Time for governors of and by the people for the people.

  • August 29, 2006 at 5:05 am
    Southern Agent says:
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    I was in the air in another airplane two days after Katrina along with Airforce One over New Orleans. You\’re wrong about the 15 days that went by that you wrote in your post. It was two.
    What else are wrong about, and why are you so bitter?
    The sun sets in the west, by the way.

  • August 29, 2006 at 6:57 am
    1whoknows says:
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    Hey fatty you need to chill. What I told you is the same truth that I teach to my 5th grade students. The only complaint I ever had was from the principal. He went in front of the school board and spewed some of the propaganda that you did………AND HE WAS FIRED.
    How would your colleagues feel about you if they knew you actually fell for this bs propaganda you simpleton??

  • August 30, 2006 at 7:48 am
    Katrino says:
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    You said:

    \”Dubya careens his tax-paid 747 over devastated areas on an antiseptic sight-seeing tour a year ago, fifteen days late…\”

    The truth is:

    \”President Bush is touring the flood-damaged streets of New Orleans Monday, during his third visit to the U.S. Gulf Coast since the region was devastated by Hurricane Katrina two weeks ago.\”
    http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-09/2005-09-12-voa15.cfm?CFID=31512022&CFTOKEN=25490381

    Are you a liar or just ignorant?

  • August 30, 2006 at 7:51 am
    Katrino says:
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    I\’m male, and rather slim actually. The fact that someone like you is teaching 5th graders is the reason that we homeschool.

    So please prove that anything that I said is false.

  • August 30, 2006 at 10:26 am
    1whoknows says:
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    Actually I think you proved my point for me you home schooled freak!! haha………

  • August 30, 2006 at 11:25 am
    Tom Tucker CLU says:
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    Jennifer Loven, the AP reporter who wrote the absurd \”President Bush Twists Kerry\’s Words on Iraq\” story dissected below, has a history of writing hit pieces on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. Such as this July 2003 outrage, a \”news story\” titled \”White House can\’t make the questions go away\”. Here is how Ms. Loven begins her \”news story\” on the famous \”sixteen words\” controversy:

    The White House defense of President Bush\’s now-disavowed claim that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa has evolved over the last two weeks: blame others, stonewall, bury questions in irrelevant information and, above all, hope it will go away.
    So far, none has worked.

    Are you people at Insurance Journal Lefties? Please cancel my subscription.

  • August 31, 2006 at 9:03 am
    Duffman says:
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    Bush isn\’t responsible for everything. The money has been approved and hope the rest of the $110 billion will be well spent.

    It takes time for things to happen.

  • August 31, 2006 at 9:58 am
    Bradley says:
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    The money was approved, but interestingly enough the feds wont LET them spend it. They wont release it. WHY?? Ill tell you why, most of the poor black people have moved away, a lot are still looking to come back, but if the feds can wait them out, eventually they will have to relocate, they cant wait forever. Therefore, the longer they wait, the less likely they will have to rebuild communities for poor black people, then more can be spent on upscale casinos and hotels. This is democrats and republicans that are allowing this./

  • August 31, 2006 at 10:14 am
    Katrino says:
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    This is pure baloney. There are poor black people in MS and the federal dollars are being spent there. The reason it isn\’t being spent with such alacrity in LA is that the local govts have no plan as to what they are going to do with the money. Ray \”Chocolate City\” Nagin admitted as much this week after Pres. Bush said in a press conference that the locals can have the money when they submit some kind of plan as to what they\’re going to spend it on.

    Normally coming up with a plan to spend money wouldn\’t be a problem for a Democrat, but Ray \”Chocolate City\” Nagin has been traveling the country raising money for an as-yet unannounced political race, so less important agenda items like rebuilding the city he is responsible for move to the back burner.

  • August 31, 2006 at 11:23 am
    Bob says:
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    I agree, I dont really follow poltics too closely like Katrino, but I agree with her, we need to get a smart republican in office in NEw ORleans to fix things. THese democrats are messing it up, they cant even come up with a plan to spend the money. A republican, would never spend the money on rich white developments, he could come up with something smart to get all those black people to move back! Thats waht we need, more smart black people like Lynn Swann!

  • August 31, 2006 at 11:34 am
    Cal says:
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    I think Katrino is right on here. A good republican could solve all of New Orleans problems. The best thing to do would be spend the money on developments of \”upscale\” variety. Im not saying blacks couldnt gothere, but they would have to pay fair rent like everybody else. That way, they could make some tax money from the deveolpers. Tourism is more important at this point. If you cant afford to go back home then let the black stay in Houston and Missisippi. The way I see it, the more money that is spent on casinos and stuff thats better for the econmy, where as the black people might not bring much to the economy, if you have a demmocrat or a black in office, often times they will side with the poor or the black people, where rupublicans are better at getting businesses with tax cuts and stuff. So that why I agree with the other republicans, Thats just my opinion

  • August 31, 2006 at 2:54 am
    Duffman says:
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    The partisanship here is riduculous. the other side is always the lazy and the stupid it seems with these people.

    Newsflash, there are tons of corrupt republicans.

    Rather than asking for simply a good partisan…its more productive to find a good leader who will meet everyone\’s interest and rebuild the city of new orleans without political or economic favoritism.



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