The bottom line on Katrina
When all is said and none, nobody- not President Bush, not Mayor Nagin, not Governor Blanco, and certainly not ex-FEMA head Brown- come off very well in the Hurricane Katrina fiasco.
It seems to me, though, that this is a pretty fair apportioning of the blame.
Meanwhile, here is a good assessment of how the political consequences seem to be playing out, while here is an understandable- though wrong-headed- argument that the contrast between the way he handled 9/11 and the way everybody dropped the ball on Katrina makes Rudy Giuliani invincible in 2008 should he decide to run for president (as huge and nationally traumatic a disaster as Katrina has been, it will not dominate the 2008 campaign, nor will it counterbalance Giuliani's fundamental unacceptability on social issues to Republican primary voters and caucus-goers).
Meanwhile, here, here, and here are visions of what we need to do to rebuild the first great American city in our history to be utterly obliterated (the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 resulted in far less complete devastation).
Finally, a tip of the hat for all of the above to one of the Web's best sources of comprehensive information on news, polls, and commentary, Real Clear Politics.
It seems to me, though, that this is a pretty fair apportioning of the blame.
Meanwhile, here is a good assessment of how the political consequences seem to be playing out, while here is an understandable- though wrong-headed- argument that the contrast between the way he handled 9/11 and the way everybody dropped the ball on Katrina makes Rudy Giuliani invincible in 2008 should he decide to run for president (as huge and nationally traumatic a disaster as Katrina has been, it will not dominate the 2008 campaign, nor will it counterbalance Giuliani's fundamental unacceptability on social issues to Republican primary voters and caucus-goers).
Meanwhile, here, here, and here are visions of what we need to do to rebuild the first great American city in our history to be utterly obliterated (the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 resulted in far less complete devastation).
Finally, a tip of the hat for all of the above to one of the Web's best sources of comprehensive information on news, polls, and commentary, Real Clear Politics.
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