Quote Originally Posted by commiecat View Post
Your perspective is skewed.

The lives lost during Katrina are not to be laid at anyone's feet. Why would you blame Nagin and Blanco for something that affected several states? Oh, right -- they were democrats. How come GWB wasn't mentioned in your list?

What backup plan did NOAA have for this situation that wasn't enacted? What red tape exists that is preventing a cleanup? This is the fault of BP, and BP alone.

IIRC, GWB was suggesting to Nagin and Blanco to evacuate atleast three days before the storm hit, they took it upon themselves to disregard his warnings and stayed put, and IMO they are to blame for what happened following the storm, since they had plenty of time to evacuate. Of the 1836 deaths blamed on katrina, 1400 happened in NO, while 400 or so happened in all the other states combined, why the huge disparity? I think you pointed correctly to them democrats, getting used to other people taking care of you, definitely reduces your ability to take matters in your own hands when the need arrives. One video clip i saw was a year after the disaster, they showed the progress of the clean up of NO. They went to a school and the administrator showed them a school that was very dirty still, she said just look around, they havent done anything to this school yet, all I could think was yah a year later and you still havent cleaned up your school, I guess we cant teach the children a work ethic, at the same time as they increase the pride they have in the school, because they have sweat equity invested.

The red tape, is that there has to be an enviromental study before Jindahl can build sand berms to prevent an enviromental catastrophy, how would building berms cause more harm, to the enviroment, than millions of gallons of crude coming ashore? As a side note, the current try of BP, which has shown some success, since they now claim a majority of the oil is being contained, was their first idea but they were told it wouldnt work by the current administration and were told to try other methods(including highly toxic dispersants), after weeks of trying the other plans, and millions more gallons of oil leaking, they went back to the original idea and it seems to be working. So IMO this admin is atleast partially to blame. Not to mention that now BP gets to take time out of their efforts to answer the criminal probe that has been started, like they have all sorts of free time to participate in interviews, why not wait until after the disaster has been contained? Maybe the enviromentalists will learn that it is far safer to drill and far easier to deal with a disaster, when it happens, in shallow water close to shore, than in mile deep water miles and miles from shore.