I’m finding a couple recurring themes in the nations response to Katrina:

1) Democrats and opponents of Bush wasted little time throwing down the race card, even if there is no reason
2) People hate Bush so much, they blame him first no matter what the facts are
3) Democrats and liberals in general have do a good job in conditioning Americans to expect the federal government to be like a white knight, swooping in to fix every little problem in the country
4) Cronyism is great to criticize beforehand, not after the fact. So if a party in power (let’s say the Democrats in 2002 when they controlled the Senate) allows Michael Brown to be confirmed, it’s a little disengenious to complain later when he turns out to be a putz.
5) Ray Nagin is a self-aggrandizing camera hog
6) Bush needs to be as tough on bureaurocrats as he is on terrorists
7) There needs to be less focus on centralization of disaster management, and more focus on local, first responders
Any politician you see on television complaining about Bush or praising Bush is full of it, and isn’t helping the problem.
9) Animals get no respect.

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