Can Bush survive the fallout of Katrina?

With his approval ratings at their lowest ever, Katrina is testing
President Bush’s mettle as a crisis manager, says Deb Reichmann on Newsday. 9/11 may have been the defining moment of his presidency, but failing Katrina’s test will “mar his legacy.” Bush took to the Rose Garden to reassure Americans.


Was Katrina the result of global warming?

The correct answer is that “there is no way to prove that Katrina
either was, or was not, affected by global warming,” say climate
scientists at RealClimate. Hurricane Katrina had nothing to do with George Bush, Global Warming,
The War in Iraq, Born-again Christians, or Allah punishing the
Infidels. It had everything to do with 40-year climate cycles, says Ken Hughes in American Chronicle.

Did the free market kill New Orleans?

Armed with advanced warning
that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and
surrounding areas, what did officials do? They played the free market, says Michael Parenti. “They announced that everyone should evacuate. Everyone was expected to
devise their own way out of the disaster area by private means, just as
the free market dictates, just like people do when disaster hits
free-market Third World countries.”


Was Katrina an act of God?

Repent America
is certainly encouraging the implication that homosexuality and the
hurricane were causally connected, with this quote from Matthew 5:45:
“[God] sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” Meanwhile, also on the
site, you can find out if you are “good enough to go to heaven.”


Meanwhile…

Police shot at eight people
carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge – contractors for the US Army
Corps of Engineers on their way to repair a canal … See how Scipionus is using the internet and people power to map the damage caused by Katrina – Wired has
the full story … In a week of heartbreaking tales, this is probably
some of the most heartbreaking footage you’ll see – from Tim Russert’s “Meet the Press” interview with Aaron Broussard, President of
Jefferson Parish Louisiana … What life is like at the refugee camps, according to Jordan Flaherty, who writes: “Race has always been the
undercurrent of Louisiana politics. This disaster is one that was
constructed out of racism, neglect and incompetence. Hurricane Katrina
was the inevitable spark igniting the gasoline of cruelty and
corruption.”