Without recognizing why, because it would undercut their partisan “Katrina was all Bush’s fault” narrative, the Obama-Biden team nevertheless acknowledged the improved situation in Louisiana: Barack Obama expressed hope Saturday that the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina three years ago would help to protect the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Gustav this time. His running mate, …

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A couple of points stuck out in E.J.Dionne’s latest Washington Post column, “Perfect Storm for the Poor”: What is most notable is the complete absence of any comment or analysis of the causes of poverty. Dionne doesn’t even mention any. Bottom line – you guessed it – it’s President Bush’s fault. It’s all a matter …

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Probably not, as this effort from The Washington Post illustrates. We noted all the shoddy press coverage of the hurricane and its aftermath at the time. See for example here and here. More Katrina related stuff here. The Post piece fails to even mention any of the unrealistic expectations, hysteria and outright falsehoods spread by …

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The AP reports (via Yahoo News): WASHINGTON – Widespread criticism of the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina was largely deserved, the Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog concludes in a report rapping the agency for focusing on terrorism at the expense of preparing for natural disasters. But wasn’t the Department of Homeland Security created in …

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The Washington Post has a front page analysis of the progress, or lack thereof, in rebuilding the region hit by hurricane Katrina. What the article demonstrates is the glaring problem of unrealistic expectations. Nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, President Bush’s lofty promises to rebuild the Gulf Coast have been frustrated by …

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Nick Kotz uses the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to illustrate how so many on the left unquestioningly accept some old shibboleths about race and racism in today’s Washington Post: …despite the enormous gains, old problems persist. The winds of Hurricane Katrina blew away the veil shielding complacent eyes from the desperate poverty of the …

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Via Tapscott’s Copy Desk: The U.S. Senate voted 86-13 against three anti-pork spending amendments offered by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK. The Coburn amendments would have repealed $500,000 previously authorized for a sculpture park in Seattle, Washington, $200,000 to build an animal shelter in Westerly, RI, and $200,000 to build a parking lot in Omaha, Nebraska, …

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…or at least not nearly as many as they initially predicted in the hysterical news coverage immediately following hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans. The Los Angeles Times, to their credit, has a good critique of the post-Katrina news coverage, Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy. We’ve been pointing out the …

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It looks like we’re in for another round of knee-jerk overreaction in Washington. We were against the formation of the Dept. of Homeland Security after 9/11, reasoning that the addition of yet another layer of bureacracy wouldn’t be helpful. From the Washington Post, Bush Urges Shift in Relief Responsibilities: …Bush is asking Congress to consider …

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David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy has comments on the Democrats’ continued support of the Davis-Bacon Act here. We addressed the issue previously here.

Question: We know Bushitler-Rove sent hurricane Katrina into New Orleans because they don’t like black people. But why are they attacking their home state of Texas now, sending hurricane Rita in there? What’s the angle? Anyone?

A “news” story on MSNBC’s website begins: WASHINGTON – Initially, after Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, was slow in getting ice and water to victims. …. But as we noted days ago, the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army were on scene right after hurricane Katrina hit, with water, food, and …

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