September 16, 2005

It's all your fault

By Steve Feinstein
The President has certainly had a difficult time of it lately. Hurricane Katrina has brought forth a dizzying array of problems, each one of them, apparently, clearly the fault of President Bush. The city of New Orleans has long been at high risk for a disaster of the magnitude of Katrina. Several previous studies have shown that there was a high probability of major flooding from a strong hurricane.  However, according to an article on factcheck.org , even if all the requested Federal funding for hurricane flood control had been allocated, there is still serious doubt that the funding would have prevented the Katrina disaster because the project was never designed to handle a storm of that intensity. '...We asked the Corps about that  'design issue.'  David Hewitt, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, said [White House Press Secretary Scott] McClellan was referring to the fact that 'the levees were designed for a category 3 hurricane.' He [Hewitt] told us...(Read Full Article)