Katrina Exposes Superpower in Disarray (AP)

New York Times ^ | September 11, 2005 | Associated Press

[RegulatorCountry]

"They throw garbage wherever, spit on people, steal, loot, you get the picture"

And apparently defectated where they stood, which I will never understand. No notion of sanitation, no desire to avoid disease. Dig a latrine, cordon off an area for the waste, throw it out the window to float off in the flood water, burn it or SOMETHING.

Don't just wallow in it.

[hershey]

The NYTimes is playing Chicken Little. The only people in disarray are the dems. For the adults, life goes on.

[pending]

AP posts this kind of thing as a news item, rather than the highly charged political rhetoric it is.
No author to take the heat.
Very lightweight, very chickenshirt, disingenuous
and precisely wrong.

There is movement to control the spin of this, to deny the obvious recognition that entitlement mentality and larger
Guvmint answers are fatally flawed.
N'Oleans reaps the harvest of its corruption.
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Mr Bush should have spoken about the states unwillingness to give him the authority to act. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and wednesday, to pressure Blanko.

Politically, it would have left him very far from the mess we have now, but more importantly, the innocents
deserved to know that the Fed wasn't going to be there, and why.

There would be none of this BS spinning, racial nuttiness,
none of it.

I cannot fathom why he did not do that.

[Republican Wildcat]

Staggered by Katrina, the U.S. also faces international opposition to the war it is leading in Iraq. There is resentment, too, that Bush has refused to sign the Kyoto treaty on global warming or embrace British Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposal that rich nations donate foreign aid equal to 0.7 percent of their national income. The U.S. percentage is 0.16 percent, the lowest of leading industrialized nations.

I guess having basic civics knowledge isn't a requirement for reporting on civic affairs at the AP. The President cannot ratify treaties - that is the Senate, which was unanimously on record as being opposed to the compact before Bush ever took office.

[RedMonqey]

"There is resentment, too, that Bush has refused to sign the Kyoto treaty on global warming or embrace British Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposal that rich nations donate foreign aid equal to 0.7 percent of their national income. "

How can the Liberals argue on one hand we're NOT giving enough foreign then on the other hand say we're not spending enough on domestic issues like diaster relief, etc.