Danger is the nosey next-door neighbor of Security.

How sad is voting based on name recognition? I’ll let you know when Jeb Bush gets elected president!

No matter what the blame breakdown is, general perception is the Fed dropped the ball more than anyone else, and that will affect them negatively this election, I’m almost sure of it.

No matter how the Right tries to spin all these various issues (Iraq, unchecked spending…since Ted Stevens is holding up the bill…, Katrina, stem cell research, immigration, border policy, oil prices), there’s too many things stacked up against them to excuse away so many failed policies.

The blame is to be spread among all branches of government. The city and state, however, where overwhelmed by an unprecedented disaster. There mistakes in planning may have cost lives, but their mistakes during the disaster are partly because of the enormity and unprecented nature of the event.

On the other hand, the Federal government could have rode in to the rescue and been proactive in getting to Louisiana. Instead they played games for 5 days, playing the blame game and pretending that they didn’t know there was a hurricane in New Orleans.

I heard Brian Williams yesterday tell how he went to Banda Aceh 2 days after the tsunami, and swelled up with pride as an American as the first thing he saw were pallets of American food aid on the streets. But the Bush administration couldn’t get food/water to the Superdome? Pure neglect.

The cons, however, go out of their way to present a Rightist view because they see themselves in this phony war against what they perceive to be the “Leftist Media”. I stand corrected.

As for Katrina, the primary blame is on the ACOE for building levees and dams with inadequate infrastructures. In terms of response, the blame is evenly spread across local, state and federal lines. To apply percentages of blame is moot at this point, but Bush does look ridiculous trotting around down there. Of course, he’s damned if he goes and damned if he didn’t.

One of the most infuriating aspects of this presidency is the lack of any culpability for six years for any policy that’s gone wrong. Usually some low level staffer or department head falls on their sword, comfortably insulating Bush & Co. from blame. It would have been refreshing to hear him issue a mea culpa while touring down there.

A) God [i.e. Mother Nature] (everyone with a functioning cortex).

or

B) Halliburtion and other polluting Republicans (Al Gore)

What other problems do you see?

Katrina was a vivid illustration of Republican incompetence and callous disregard of the average American. Are the Democrats capitalizing on this? No sir!

Most likely due to the fact that the two people most responsible for the debacle were … Democrats!

” and most of the media is fairly sympathetic to the Left”

But otherwise, good post.

You’re absolutely right, of course. But the current crop of “leaders” in the Democratic Party are just not fighters. It’s not their nature, it isn’t in their skill set, they aren’t going to do it.