Well, apparently it's on tape - the AP is reporting that there is videotape of the briefings done for the White House by FEMA and NOAA on the likelihood of catastrophic damage from Katrina, well before landfall: " In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned
President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, risk lives in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage of the briefings."
My question is - what will it take to convince Americans that this is a Republican party problem, not the problem of Bush or other individuals in that party.
The AP is reporting this story - here's a Yahoo link -
http://news.yahoo.com/...
Apparently Brown is on tape warning that FEMA was not prepared to deal with thousands of people camped out in the Superdome, and the NOAA weather people apparently were dire in their predictions of damage, including to the levees.
I have said all along that what happened last August and September - and indeed throughout this last 5 years in almost every area I can think of - is what happens when you put in charge of the government a party and its leaders who don't believe in government to start with, except as a military arm of corporations. What I'm afraid of is that people who are now responsible for Bush's tanking poll numbers will revert to their more conservative inclinations when it comes to their local and state representatives Congress, and even more so in 2008 if someone like McCain runs as the Republican "anti-Bush". What will it take?