[link|http://abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1094262&page=1|Using Katrina against Dubya looks like another nonstarter]

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Sept. 4, 2005 \ufffd Americans are broadly critical of government preparedness in the Hurricane Katrina disaster \ufffd but far fewer take George W. Bush personally to task for the problems, and public anger about the response is less widespread than some critics would suggest...

The most critical views cross jurisdictions: Two-thirds in this ABC News/Washington Post poll say the federal government should have been better prepared to deal with a storm this size, and three-quarters say state and local governments in the affected areas likewise were insufficiently prepared...

Other evaluations are divided. Forty-six percent of Americans approve of Bush's handling of the crisis, while 47 percent disapprove. That compares poorly with Bush's 91 percent approval rating for his performance in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but it's far from the broad discontent expressed by critics of the initial days of the hurricane response. (It also almost exactly matches Bush's overall job approval rating, 45 percent, in an ABC/Post poll a week ago.)

I say:

Three's the blame game, and then there's the blame. The Bush haters have got one of these pretty well covered.

It would be nice if the Mayor of that cesspool of corruption that's recently been flushed turns out to be a Bush hater. Because he's going to get the lion's share of the blame when this is sorted out.

Oh, and Ms. Blanco? There's something I could say in her defense, but it's sexist, so I won't say it.

There are those who do, and those who carp from the sidelines. Dubya is doing.

Me, I'm gonna carp from the sidelines, but in the opposite direction. Som e technology I helped develop is already in use down there, so I have at least as much right as the other carpers. I'm going to have the bad grace to point out that the city brought this upon itself, first by building below sea level, then by an incompetent execution of its own incoherent disaster plan.

There are four cities in this country that are an embarrassment to the rest of us. Top of the list is Berkeley, California. Third is the District of Columbia, and fourth is Las Vegas. You can guess who's in second place. A town full of crime, corruption, bad design, incompetent government, and a Clintonesque philosophy of life. Oh, and brackish water.

It's said that God promised to spare Sodom if ten righteous men could be found therein. The quota was not met, and you know the rest. There were probably many more than ten decent people in New Orleans. But Darwin is a harsh and unforgiving god, and it doesn't pay to live in a neighborhood that nature intended to be underwater.