hurricane katrina

No one who wasn’t employed by Donald Rumsfeld would ever argue that he wasn’t the worst secretary of defense since Robert McNamara, but Robert Draper mines the depths of Rumsfeld’s tenure at the Pentagon in GQ and emerges with new disgraces. Watch Rumsfeld cynically present Bush with briefings on the invasion of Iraq that portray [...]

Below is the full text of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Republican response speech. But I’m struck by this bit:
Today in Washington, some are promising that government will rescue us from the economic storms raging all around us.
Those of us who lived through Hurricane Katrina, we have our doubts.
Let me tell you a story.

The Republican National Committee has sent out the full text of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s response to the presidential speech. It’s embargoed for now, but, spoiler alert: the governor uses Hurricane Katrina of an example of why Americans can’t trust government to save them.

President George W. Bush is saying that the emergency response to Hurricane Gustav is far better than the response to Katrina in 2005. The president canceled his plans to attend the Republican National Convention today in order to fly to Texas and oversee emergency response efforts to Gustav.
The Republicans also canceled their prime-time programming for [...]

At the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Americans are talking about the number of lessons to be learned from the tragedy of that storm and the failure of response by the U.S. government that followed.