re: #160 ShanghaiEd

sagehen, you said a mouthful. Great distillation of that time and mindset, I think.

I had forgotten, until now, that when Bush started getting criticism over Katrina, his response was to appoint Karl Rove (!) in charge of redeveloping New Orleans. It seemed so surreal to me that it had to be a dark inside joke. That impression only grew when Rove didn’t even make the pretense of meetings, committees, studies, etc. That whole Rove/N.O. episode was just a symbolic middle finger, I thought.

SE .. I grew up in New Orleans … everyone knew it would happen sooner or later … there are many fingers to point in regards to what happened … the State officials were not prepared and they should have been … they should have been the first ones to act and be prepared … Nagan was a complete idiot and reacted in the worst way …. the projects in New Orleans should have been torn down decades ago … the state and local officials never did anything about them … they knew very well what would happen to all those people if the major flooding came and they all knew at some point it would happen … it does not excuse everything but Nagan needs to accept major responsibility …