I don't want to make the mistake that many bloggers seem to be making today of trying to use Hurricane Katrina to bolster their partisan arguments...and besides, I don't even believe it has to be an either/or situation. The richest, most powerful nation on the planet ought to be able to deal with a war and a couple of natural disasters at the same time. And if we aren't, that is hardly a failing that can be blamed on any one administration or Congress.
Today, Josh Marshall says:
there are just too many examples out there of the ways in which [the president's] policies have contributed to and accentuated this crisis: systematic cuts in levee and pump construction around New Orleans...phasing out FEMA and the apparently the whole concept of national coordination of the response to natural disasters. That's a great idea, isn't it? ...And, of course, example after example of cronies running critical agencies.
I tend to agree with Marshall, but it's worth reading what both of them have to say.
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