Federal failure in New Orleans
Cato Institute
by Doug Bandow
09/09/05
Is George W. Bush a serious person? It's not a question to ask lightly of a decent man who holds the US presidency, an office worthy of respect. But it must be asked. No one 'anticipated the breach of the levees' due to Hurricane Katrina, he said, after being criticised for his administration's dilatory response to the suffering in the city of New Orleans. A day later he told his director of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, Michael Brown: 'Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.' Is Bush a serious person? The most important duty at the moment obviously is to respond to the human calamity, not engage in endless recriminations. But it is not clear that this President and this administration are capable of doing what is necessary...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4638
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Doug Bandow
09/09/05
Is George W. Bush a serious person? It's not a question to ask lightly of a decent man who holds the US presidency, an office worthy of respect. But it must be asked. No one 'anticipated the breach of the levees' due to Hurricane Katrina, he said, after being criticised for his administration's dilatory response to the suffering in the city of New Orleans. A day later he told his director of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, Michael Brown: 'Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.' Is Bush a serious person? The most important duty at the moment obviously is to respond to the human calamity, not engage in endless recriminations. But it is not clear that this President and this administration are capable of doing what is necessary...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4638
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 9. Sep, 11:39
