Flooding Bush's Fault?

Though I  do not live there now, I am from New Orleans.  I have family there as well as own seven small rental homes. My family is safe but I will be suffer severly financially because of the flood. It is the flood that has caused this not the hurricane and floods are stopped in New Orleans by levees. Levees must be maintained and they have not been maintained.

Is Bush to blame? Worse the Republican party with its attitude that all taxes are bad is to blame. Infrastructure is everything in all modern countries. It is what protects us and enables commerce. This is the Democratic strength whether they will use or not. Taxes are good, are investments and we should embrace them as such. Is this political? Absolutely. This flood, not gods part in it but the governments part is completely political. As was the sniper in the Mid-Atlantic a few years ago. We must be plain spoken and blunt as to where republican policies lead.

•  In a word...

  ...YES.

  by MeanBoneII on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 07:32:35 AM PDT

•  The botched recovery...

  ...will, IMHO, have more political weight than the levee failure.

  FEMA seems chaotic and incompetent, as does the rest of the Department of Homeland Security.

  Bush's claim that "no one could have foreseen" the failure of the levees is eerily reminiscent of Rice's testimony that "no one could have foreseen" the use of jet planes as weapons: both are clearly lies.

  by Elwood Dowd on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 07:39:52 AM PDT

•  Sure.

  He didn't anticipate the flooding and bet against it.  God told him there wasn't going to be any, just like there wasn't going to be any casualties in Iraq.  Wasn't it his good friend Pat Robertson who was shocked?

  cnn--

  by anonymous coward 8 on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 07:40:49 AM PDT

  •  Republicans are UNwise

    And that is my complaint about them. Keeping up levees is important and wise. Preparing for a possible 1917 style flu is wise.  Which party is most likely to prepare for this? One that believes government has no use? There are many things that America should do if we are wise. Is universal healthcare wise? When all your competitors have universal healthcare and America makes businesses pay and worse do all the paperwork for it, not having universal government run healthcare is unwise. It is a competitiveness issue. America is being run into the ground by the Republicans.

    by tchoup on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 07:52:10 AM PDT

  •  lying

    They already parsing and lying about their responsibility.

    so, they know they need to hide something.

    by fugue on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 08:14:37 AM PDT

•  Now all we have to do

  Is to get one of our Democratic "leaders" to give this speach.

  by marchmoon on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 07:46:16 AM PDT