[Political humor] Top 25 Stupid Quotes about Katrina

Dang gone right man.


If you were next to me, Id give you a cookie for that brilliant response dude.



Whole lot of quietness on those who would lap the shoes of these same people responsible for these quotes.

 

Actually, no. I thought about this quite a bit, and I would not have blamed Clinton if this had happened during his tenure. Everyone keeps forgetting that this was a known fact about New Orleans for the last century, and much longer.

New Orleans not being raised up, Galveston style, was deemed an unworthy cost by all political parties.

New Orleans had an evacuation plan. They failed to use it. That is the localities fault.

Y'all have apparently forgotten that it took FEMA over a month to deal with reparations during Allison. FEMA's main responsibilty was reparations. Something I'm still personally against.

What did the Galveston survivors do after the 1900 storm? Wait for big brother to come save them? Not even close.

 

I don't think they had helicopters etc. back then.

 

No helicopters. No Government assistant programs. No evacuation routes. No RADAR.

Yet they rebuilt the city and raised it 20 feet above sea level; a miraculous feat, especially at that time. And, no. The Government didn't raise the city. Local interests did.

 

I'm not defending stupid quotes, b/c everyone makes them, but I heard just as many idiotic quotes from the other side durring these past couple of weeks. Just look at the govenor.

 

And 10,000 - 12,000 dead.

The city failed, but I do think it is of national interest to protect and serve our cities that have predicted natural disasters. If that means spending 1/5 on NO that we foolishly have on Iraq, I can live with that.

Bush's record of destroying environmental laws etc. doesn't help him right now. I think actions like that are what cause more backlash than if this would of happened during Clinton's tenure.

 

I see. So this has more to do with Bush's other policies than the actual natural disaster, huh? I couldn't have said it better, myself.

 

Priorities, not policies.

 

New Orleans maybe a little more important than Galveston.

Rocket River

 

Galveston is 20 feet above sea level, or do you mean a the sea wall? Actually Galveston was the largest city in Texas before 1900, it didn't recover all that well.

 

*sigh* - huge old wives tale. Houston had already surpassed Galveston in 1900. Galveston was never large enough to be a large shipping port. That's why the Ship channel was created.

And the entire section of Galveston at the seawall was raised 20 feet, buildings and all. There are still roads and railroad tracks 20 feet below the ground there.

 

Not sure of the relevance of this response at all.