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

[lizziebith]

I don't care for the gal's music, but 20 minutes before she was supposed to take the stage for her Vegas show, Celine Dion went on Larry King and pretty much ripped him a new one. She yelled! She cried. She was outraged at the slow help... She gave a million bucks and was the ONLY celeb on his "fund-raising-SHOW" who said that was nothing to her -- that it was a drop in the bucket -- that she'd need to give again in 2-3 months. Go Celine! Now I think you're really cool...