Katrina Response Mismanagement

[Gemini Cricket]

A quote from U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La regarding Bush:

“But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast – black and white, rich and poor, young and old – deserve far better from their national government."

So the rebuilding of the levee was just a Bush coordinated photo-op thing? Nice.

http://www.fromtheroots.org/story/2005/9/3/19542/97952